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Yabancılara Türkçe Öğretimine Yönelik Ders Kitaplarındaki Konuşma Etkinliklerinin Dil Öğrenme Stratejileri Açısından İncelenmesi
An Investigation of Speaking Activities in Textbooks for Turkish Teaching as a Foreign Language in terms of the Language Learning Strategies

Author(s): Sevil Hasırcı
Subject(s): Education, Foreign languages learning, Language acquisition, Cognitive linguistics, Turkic languages
Published by: T.C. MEHMET AKİF ERSOY ÜNİVERSİTESİ EĞİTİM FAKÜLTESİ
Keywords: Turkish teaching as a foreign language; textbooks; language learning strategies; Oxford’s classification;

Summary/Abstract: The tools used in the course have an important place for language learners to recognize the learning strategies. The activities in the textbooks play a crucial role for the learner’s using the strategies in the language learning process and selecting them according to situations. Therefore, in this study, it was aimed to determine which language learning strategies were employed in speaking activities at A2 level. For this purpose, Oxford's classification was utilized. In the study, document analysis method was used and A2 level textbook speaking activities were examined in terms of memory, cognitive, compensation, metacognitive, social and affective strategies. As a result of the research, it was seen that the strategies were used unbalanced in the textbooks, and there was a proportional difference in the use of other strategies despite the predominant use of cognitive strategies at all of them. Besides, it was determined that the activites of textbooks look weak in terms of affective strategies, and also are insufficient in terms of all aspects of the strategies. For this reason, it can be said that the learning activities and tasks in the textbooks should revise in terms of teaching the learning strategies to learners.

  • Issue Year: 5/2019
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 314-333
  • Page Count: 20
  • Language: Turkish
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