Özet:

The development of writing skills in language teaching occurs later than other skills. On the basis of this are the form-focused teacher approaches and the fact that students do not like to create standard texts that are bound to rules through fixed words, away from creativity. Moving from brain research, the clustering technique, which supports the creative functions of the right brain apart from the conventional text forming of left brain, can provide important contributions to the development of writing skills. This research was carried out in order to determine the effect of Cluster technique on the invention, planning and narration skills in written expressions of university first grade students taking Turkish I: Written Expression course. Experimental design with control group based on pre-test and post-test measurements was used in the research. The experimental group of the study consisted of 45 students who study in the Preschool Teacher Department of Atatürk University Kâzım Karabekir Education Faculty and the control group consisted of 48 students in the Psychological Counseling and Guidance Department. As a data collection tool, The "Composition Evaluation Scale" developed by Konedralı and Özder (2007) and composed of materials measuring invention, planning and expression skills was used at the beginning and end of the experimental process for both groups. The SPSS program was used for the statistical analysis of the obtained data; It has been found that there is a significant difference in favor of the test group in terms of invention, planning and expression ability among the groups which are initially similar to each other in the result of the study. At the end of the research, the results of similar studies were also compared and various suggestions were made in this direction.

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