Synectics as a prewriting technique: Its effects on writing fluency and lexical complexity

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dc.contributor.authorBalkir, Nalan Bayraktar
dc.contributor.authorTopkaya, Ece Zehir
dc.date.accessioned2025-01-27T21:23:34Z
dc.date.available2025-01-27T21:23:34Z
dc.date.issued2017
dc.departmentÇanakkale Onsekiz Mart Üniversitesi
dc.description.abstractThis study aimed to explore the effects of synectics as a prewriting technique on writing fluency and lexical complexity in the written texts of 20 tertiary level Turkish EFL learners. To this end, a mixed research design was adopted combining both quantitative and qualitative techniques. Repeated measures design was employed to examine the differences in participants' writing fluency and lexical complexity over time, and to gain a deeper understanding of learners' experiences, semi-structured interviews were conducted. The learner-written texts were analyzed using VocabProfile (VP), an online text analysis program, with respect to fluency and lexical complexity. Descriptive statistics, Friedman test for repeated measures, and Wilcoxon Signed Ranks test were carried out as data analysis procedures. As for the analysis of the qualitative data, inductive content analysis was performed. The findings revealed that the participants' writing fluency increased significantly at the end of the program. On the other hand, their lexical complexity remained the same during the study. In terms of the results of the qualitative analysis, the participants had mostly positive perceptions about their synectics experience in terms of vocabulary learning, improvement of writing skills, and attitudes to writing. (c) 2017 EJAL & the Authors. Published by Eurasian Journal of Applied Linguistics (EJAL). This is an open-access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution license (CC BY-NC-ND).
dc.identifier.endpage347
dc.identifier.issn2149-1135
dc.identifier.issue2
dc.identifier.startpage325
dc.identifier.trdizinid260411
dc.identifier.urihttps://search.trdizin.gov.tr/tr/yayin/detay/260411
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12428/29192
dc.identifier.volume3
dc.identifier.wosWOS:000425963200021
dc.identifier.wosqualityN/A
dc.indekslendigikaynakWeb of Science
dc.indekslendigikaynakTR-Dizin
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherHacettepe Univ, Elt Dept
dc.relation.ispartofEurasian Journal of Applied Linguistics
dc.relation.publicationcategoryinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/closedAccess
dc.snmzKA_WoS_20250125
dc.subjectAttitudes to writing
dc.subjectlexical complexity
dc.subjectprewriting techniques
dc.subjectsynectics
dc.subjectwriting fluency
dc.titleSynectics as a prewriting technique: Its effects on writing fluency and lexical complexity
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