English usage in daily life by Turkish students between 15–19 years of age: a scale development study
| Autor: | A. Fulya Soğuksu, Z. Canan Karababa, C. Deha Doğan |
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| Rok vydání: | 2016 |
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060201 languages & linguistics
Scale (ratio) Turkish 05 social sciences Scale development 050301 education 06 humanities and the arts Test validity Structural equation modeling Confirmatory factor analysis language.human_language Exploratory factor analysis Education Cronbach's alpha 0602 languages and literature language Psychology 0503 education Social psychology Demography |
| Zdroj: | Educational Studies. 43:71-89 |
| ISSN: | 1465-3400 0305-5698 |
| DOI: | 10.1080/03055698.2016.1245602 |
| Popis: | The purpose of this study is to develop a valid and reliable scale to assess the level of English usage in daily life by students between 15 and 19 years of age, and to compare these students’ scale scores according to their achievement levels in an English course. Five hundred and ninety-five participants were randomly selected from a universe. Exploratory factor analysis results indicate that the scale has a two-factor structure, which explains 50.1% of the total variance. Exploratory factor analysis is validated by confirmatory factor analysis (NNFI: 0.97; CFI: 0.97; GFI: 0.87; AGFI: 0.84; RMSEA: 0.07; and Standardized RMR: 0.05). Cronbach Alpha coefficients for Factor 1 and Factor 2 were calculated as 0.90 and 0.86, respectively. Test–retest reliability coefficient of the scale is at the expected level (r: 0.86, p |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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