High School Students' Opinions on the Ottoman Turkish Course

This study was carried out to determine the opinions, interests and views formed in the minds of high school students about Ottoman Turkish and the Ottoman Turkish lesson, and to determine the opinions of the students about the lesson by making a comparison between the students who took the lesson and those who did not. Phenomenology and case study patterns were used as a qualitative research method in the study. Data were collected with the participation of a total of 76 high school students. Interview method was used for data collection and content analysis method was used for data analysis. As a data collection tool, a structured interview form prepared with open-ended research questions was used. In the study, the answers given by high school students to the questions we prepared about Ottoman Turkish, and its course were coded and separated into themes and frequency values were given according to these themes. The data obtained from the research were collected under a total of 133 themes. Based on the determined themes, the opinions, and thoughts of the participants about the Ottoman Turkish lesson were included. According to the comparison made between the study groups, although there were students who stated the opposite, the most frequently mentioned situation by the students was "learning the past by learning Ottoman Turkish, establishing a connection between the past and the future, being able to read works from the past".