Abstract:

It is also aimed to develop mental skills such as thinking, understanding, sorting, classifying, interrogating, establishing relationships, criticizing, analyzing and synthesizing, evaluating in addition to basic language skills in the Turkish Language Curriculum updated in 2017. In order for the Turkish course to serve this purpose, both the questions in the textbooks and the questions that teachers ask in the classroom and examinations need to be prepared in such a way as to improve the students' high-level thinking skills. Therefore, in order to improve students' thinking skills, questions prepared for various types of texts in Turkish lessons should be qualified. Because all activities (listening, speaking, reading, writing, linguistic knowledge, visual reading and presentation) conducted in Turkish lessons are handled in the context of the text. In this study, it is aimed to evaluate the ability of asking questions about different text types of Turkish and classroom teacher candidates (poetry and narrative text types in which the artistic function of the language is held in the foreground). The study group of the study constitutes 138 teacher candidates who are trained in Turkish Education and Classroom Teaching departments of Recep Tayyip Erdoğan University Faculty of Education in the spring semester of 2015-2016 academic year. Two different types of texts (poetry and story) were used as data collection tools in the study and students were asked to prepare comprehension / comprehension questions for these texts. In the study, document analysis was used in qualitative research methods. Descriptive analysis was used to interpret the data. The questions prepared by the prospective teachers were examined based on the levels of the cognitive domain of the renewed Bloom taxonomy: 'remembering, understanding, applying, analyzing, evaluating and creating'. As a result of the analysis, it has been determined that the teacher candidates are inadequate in preparing the questions that improve the high level thinking skills.

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