QUALITATIVE RESEARCH ON THE MISTAKES OF 1ST GRADE STUDENTS IN PRIMARY SCHOOL ABOUT CURSIVE WRITING

This article sets out to analyze mis writings of 1st grade students in primary school on cursive writing in a detailed manner. In this research, as a data analysis descriptive analysis, and document review, a method of qualitative researchs, were used. The present research held in a public primary school in ？slahiye, a district of Gaziantep, in 2015-2016 academic year. The findings were extracted by 45 1st grade students who have been educated in a public school. Turkish language notebooks of these forty-five students were utulized as a data source. According to research findings, 40 students(%88.8) can’t write the letters of cursive writing properly and conveniently, 20 students(%44.5) don’t pay attention to top extension of letters, 19 students(42.2) don’t pay attention to bottom extension of letters, 16 students(%35.6) can’t write the roots of letters correctly, 7 students(%15.5) make mistakes on beginning lines of letters. It was also identified that 15 students(%33.3) can’t make the connections of letters correctly, 19 students(%42.2) can’t write ending lines of letters, 40 students(%88.8) don’t pay attention to traits of letters, 14 students(%31.1) can’t leave a blank between letters in sentences and words, 6 students(%13.3) miswrite the letters which have almost same spelling when they are capital or minuscule, 19 students(42.2) write letters differently and disorderly. Finally, it was concluded that students don’t pay attention to lines because of writing rate and low writing skills