Use Of The “Micro Teaching Method” For Teaching Turkish As A Foreign Language: A Comparative Study On Prep Students At Kyrgyz Turkish Manas University Cover Image

Türkçenin Yabanci Dil Olarak Öğretiminde “Mikro Öğretim Tekniği”: Kırgızistan-Türkiye Manas Üniversitesi Hazırlık Sınıflarında Karşılaştırmalı Bir Çalışma
Use Of The “Micro Teaching Method” For Teaching Turkish As A Foreign Language: A Comparative Study On Prep Students At Kyrgyz Turkish Manas University

Author(s): Kadir Yoğurtçu
Subject(s): Education, Foreign languages learning, Sociolinguistics, Turkic languages
Published by: Ankara Üniversitesi TÖMER
Keywords: Turkish; Kyrgyzstan; Sociolinguistic Approach: Micro Teaching Method;

Summary/Abstract: The global world that is characterized by the rapid transformations in the fields of communication and information technologies, as a natural result of the process, points out to a world order that encompasses and uniforms everyone by labeling them all with its prevailing culture. This process which is imposed by the global world, charges every single country with the responsibility of protecting and improving its language as a representation and power of the cultural heritage. As we consider the significance the intercultural survival process has gained at the level of language and dialogue, we could better understand the significance of Turkish at the global level, as being a language spoken by nearly two hundred million people worldwide. Calling the international attention over itself, both by the EU membership process and its economical, political and cultural initiatives in Cyprus, Caucasia and Central Asia, Turkey has been developing new programs and has speeded up the scientific studies related with the issue of teaching Turkish as a foreign language. These studies have been executed parallel with the criteria of ‘attaching importance to the way language is used’ of 2000 European language council; moreover, comprehensive educational programs and new teaching materials have been worked out. The theoretical ground of these studies could be found in the sociolinguistic approach that refers to the concepts of ‘communicational capacity’, ‘language competence’, ‘speech-act’ and ‘communicational act’. With the aim of enriching the language teaching methods being proposed by the theories that are fed upon this approach, the use of an elaborated version of ‘ Micro Teaching Method’ for the rich systematic and rationalist strategies it contains, is believed to add new dimensions to the current studies in this field.

  • Issue Year: 2009
  • Issue No: 146
  • Page Range: 49-70
  • Page Count: 22
  • Language: Turkish