Abstract:

The writing skills which are very important for individuals to express themselves effectively and communicate with others efficiently is a tool that help us to explain our feelings, thoughts, plans and what we saw and lived by lettering. For using this tool more effectively cursive handwriting has been used since the changes in 2005. In this research, it was aimed to determine attitudes of prospective elementary school teachers who will teach the cursive handwriting towards cursive handwriting. This research was carried out by using quantitative research method and causal-comparative model. To determine attitudes of prospective elementary school teachers towards cursive handwriting “Cursive Handwriting Attitude Scale” (CHAS) was developed by researchers. Mann Whitney U-test and Kruskall Wallis H-test which are the non-parametric tests were used to analyze the data obtained from this study. Based on the results of this study, attitude towards reading the texts which are written in cursive handwriting points of prospective elementary teachers are higher than their attitude towards writing in cursive handwriting points and beliefs about the function of cursive handwriting points.

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