The Effect of the Use of Discussion Types on the Listening Skills of Convicts / Prisoners in Training-Improvement Activities Applied in Criminal Execution Institutions

Training and rehabilitation activities for convicts and detainees are of utmost importance for a state’s national policy in terms of their targeted lives after release. The purpose of this study is to put forward whether socio-cultural activities such as debate, panel, forum, open session used in education and training activities for the rehabilitation works performed for prisoners are effective in practice or not and making detections on the issue that activities related with improving the listening skills of prisoners can be improved or not. This research was carried out with 122 volunteer participants selected with random method from convicts/detainees in penal institutions of Bursa province who graduated from primary school, secondary school, high school and university. The study has been analyzed by five different achievements tests which have been designed by the researcher to measure the ability to understand the listening comprehension success and it has been analyzed with a statistical analysis software. The study reveals that with the use of discussion types the success of convicts/prisoners in listening comprehension has showed a significant difference between pre-test and post-test.