A Qualitative Research On The Practices Of Teachers Who Teach Turkish As A Foreign Language In Turkey Cover Image

Türkiye’de Türkçeyi Yabanci Dil Olarak Öğreten Öğretmenlerin Uygulamalarına Yönelik Nitel Bir Araştırma
A Qualitative Research On The Practices Of Teachers Who Teach Turkish As A Foreign Language In Turkey

Author(s): Ali Göçer
Subject(s): Language studies, Education, Foreign languages learning, Turkic languages
Published by: Ankara Üniversitesi TÖMER
Keywords: Turkish teaching as a foreign language; language teaching strategies and methods;

Summary/Abstract: In today’s world, second language/foreign language has gained a great importance. Whatever sector people work in, they feel the need to learn one or even a second foreign language. The importance of the foreign language teaching has increased in our time in which knowing a foreign language has deviated from being a specialty and become a feature that everyone must have. In language teaching, variables such as the pedagogical competency of the teacher, strategies and methods implemented throughout the process, and making the environment interesting for the students hold great importance. The more the activity environment has stimuli, the more lasting the learning become. For that purpose, teachers must know the characteristics of the learners very well and must enrich the learning environment with different techniques and materials in accordance with the environment facilities. In this study, it is aimed to determine the language teaching strategies and class practices of the teachers who teach students of foreign origin in Turkey Turkish as a foreign language. To that end, interview and observation forms have been prepared. The content analysis of the data obtained with interview and observation forms has been conducted in the scope of qualitative research approach.

  • Issue Year: 2009
  • Issue No: 145
  • Page Range: 28-47
  • Page Count: 20
  • Language: Turkish