The Place of Dictation in Teaching Turkish as a Foreign Language Cover Image

Yabancı Dil Olarak Türkçe Öğretiminde Diktenin Yeri
The Place of Dictation in Teaching Turkish as a Foreign Language

Author(s): Gülden Tüm
Subject(s): Foreign languages learning, Turkic languages
Published by: T.C. MEHMET AKİF ERSOY ÜNİVERSİTESİ EĞİTİM FAKÜLTESİ
Keywords: Teaching Turkish as a foreign language; dictation; writing skills; Erasmus;

Summary/Abstract: The aim of this study to investigate the impact of dictation applied frequently as an effective method in language teaching, whether foreign learners of Turkish language become aware of phonetics of letters in their target language-Turkish, aproximate period of producing target language with no errors, and foreign learners’ opinions about dictation as well. There have been limited studies on dictation in a foreign language; however, these studies give discriptive aspects of using dictation done in native languages. Therefore, this study is considered as a contribution in this field, especially for language instructors to give a clear idea whether ten-week dictation application could improve learners’ writing skills in teaching Turkish as a foreign language. The data of this study are carried out by 19 Erasmus students taking Turkish lessons in a Turkish University in Turkey. The other point is to draw attention to corpus studies which strongly needs to shed light on the lexical issues. The results indicate that learners in multi-national calsses dramatically start correcting their written morphological mistakes within seven weeks.

  • Issue Year: 2/2016
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 29-40
  • Page Count: 12
  • Language: Turkish