Teaching the turkish national anthem to foreign students with song mapping method

Abstract

The aim of this study was to determine the effectiveness of the song mapping method in teaching the Turkish National Anthem (& Idot;stiklal Mar & scedil;& imath;) to foreign students. Within this method, a map was designed by the researchers. The most fundamental feature of the map was its design to facilitate the memorization of the anthem's melody and lyrics, using rectangles to represent the pitch and duration of the notes and images to represent the lyrics. The study was conducted using a pretest-posttest control group experimental design. The sample consisted of 30 foreign students enrolled at a middle school in Yalova, T & uuml;rkiye. As the national anthem is frequently performed during school ceremonies, it was already familiar to the students. For the pretest, all students in both the experimental and control groups performed the anthem, and their performances were recorded. Following the pretest, the anthem was taught to the experimental group (n=15) using the song map, while the control group (n=15) received instruction through teacher echoing without the use of the map. The instruction was delivered over the course of four weeks, with one course hour per week. After the instruction period, the posttest was conducted by recording the students' performances once again. The performances of the students in both the pretest and posttest were evaluated by experts. In this evaluation, a rubric developed by the researchers in consultation with experts was used. The scores obtained from the rubric were analyzed using the Mann-Whitney U test and the Wilcoxon signed-rank test. The results of the study indicated that the instruction provided with the song map was more effective than the instruction provided without it.