Abstract:

The aim of this research is to examine the postgraduate theses written about podcasts in Turkey in terms of different variables. This study adopts qualitative document analysis method. Theses involving the use of podcast in education field included in this study were received from the Council of Higher Education (CoHE) National Thesis Center. Accordingly, 12 theses were involved in the study. All 12 postgraduate theses are open access. The study group of the research consists of these 12 theses. It was determined that 10 theses were written in foreign languages (9 English, 1 German) and 2 of them were written in Turkish. All theses are open access. 8 of the theses are master's theses and 4 of them are doctoral theses. These theses formed the research data. Thesis number, author, thesis name, year, university, institute, department, education program, subject, method, study group/universe-sample, writing language information were recorded in an excel file. Descriptive analysis was adopted in this study. As a result of the research, it was found that the theses on podcasts were mostly master's theses, the first thesis was written in 2010 in Turkey, 10 theses were written in a foreign language, mostly language teaching was studied and mostly written in language education departments. Podcast postgraduate theses qualitative research descriptive analysis.

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