Some Grammar Difficulties Experienced by 6th Grade Students in Teaching Turkish as Foreign Language: The Sample of Iraq Cover Image

Yabancı Dil Türkçe Dilbilgisi Öğretiminde 6. Sınıf Öğrencilerinin Yaşadıkları Bazı Güçlükler: Irak Örneği
Some Grammar Difficulties Experienced by 6th Grade Students in Teaching Turkish as Foreign Language: The Sample of Iraq

Author(s): Dildar Çetinkaya, Doğan Yücel
Subject(s): Foreign languages learning, Language acquisition, School education, Turkic languages, Pedagogy
Published by: SD Yayınevi
Keywords: Turkish; Kurdish; foreign language; grammar; learning difficulities;

Summary/Abstract: With the existence of human beings on earth, certain needs have emerged. In addition to basic needs such as nutrition and shelter, communication has become one of the biggest needs. People living in different geographies communicated with each other for many reasons and started to learn each other's languages in order for this communication to be healthy and understandable. Thus, the number of foreign language learners has increased day by day. In fact, factors related to the structural and socio-cultural differences between languages make learning difficult at the stages of foreign language learning. It has been observed that students whose mother tongue is Kurdish also experience problems in learning Turkish as a foreign language. The aim of the study is to investigate the reasons for the difficulties experienced by these students, to compare the structural features between languages and to determine where the students have difficulties while learning Turkish as a foreign language. The evaluation was prepared with a descriptive method as a result of a holistic literature review and the findings. As a result of this method applied, the population of the research is Irak Duhok Stirling Primary School students who learn Turkish as a foreign language. The sample group was determined as 72 students in the 6th grade of Stirling School. An open-ended exam was administered to the students. Exam results of the students prove that they have difficulties in grammar.

  • Issue Year: 6/2022
  • Issue No: 24
  • Page Range: 274-292
  • Page Count: 19
  • Language: Turkish