Çevrim İçi Yabancılara Türkçe Öğretimi Etkileşiminde Gülmecenin İşlevi
The Functions of Humor in Online Teaching Turkish as a Foreign Language Classroom

Summary/Abstract: This study examines humor as a multifunctional pedagogical tool in online Turkish as a Foreign Language (TFL) classrooms. It explores the nature of humorously marked interactions from a multimodal conversation analysis perspective, offering an in-depth understanding of how instructors use strategies to promote, maintain, and enhance student participation in online synchronous TFL courses. The data is based on B2-level learners a state university’s Turkish Teaching Center during the 2021-2022 academic year. The findings reveal that humorous exchanges are collaboratively created and recognized by both instructors and learners, who employ verbal, non-verbal, and screen-based resources. These enable humorous interactions to be established and maintained, eliciting, shaping, and enhancing student responses while learning opportunities are maximized and students are exposed to complex linguistic structures. This study has significant implications for online language teaching and teacher education, emphasizing the necessity of rigorous interaction analyses in TFL studies and providing recommendations for future research in distinctive contexts.

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