Situation of Primary School Students in High School Whose Writing Samples Collected at the Primary School during the Process of Unsuccesful Adjacent Writing Education

Abstract

This study was the continuation of another study which was designed as a long-term, observational and step-by-step field survey during 2010-2011 academic year.  The current study aims to demonstrate whether the students, who begin to learn writing by adjacent writing instruction during the primary school and come to the high school 11th grade, has a role in the failure in adjacent writing instruction and to provide their views regrading the situation. When we look at the stakeholders that can influence the success or failure of adjacent writing education, it is possible to classify the related units as Ministry of National Education, Educational Supervisors and School Administrators, the curriculum related to the field of teacher training institutions and instructors teaching texts, classroom and other branch teachers, students and parents of the students. In the study, components other than the students were evaluated. In conclusion, it has been observed that the students, who have practised adjacent writing at the elementary level, change their writing letters to lower case largely because of the influence of their teachers. It has been also seen that they gave up adjacent writing when the students arrived to 11th grade. When compared to adjacent writing samples of students in the 6th grade to 11th grade, the students showed an improvement but it was not acceptable. In terms of accuracy, beauty and legibility criteria, there was no significant difference between 5th and 11th grade students’ adjacent writing.