MONGOL STUDENTS’ PERCEPTIONS ABOUT TURKEY AND TURKISH

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This study examined the relationship between Mongol students Turkish learning achievement and their language skill perceptions. The research was designed in accordance with the phenomenology pattern. Participants of the study are B2 level 5 Mongolian students (3 females-2 males) who learn Turkish at TOMER of BAIBU. The age of the participants ranges from 18-21 and they all study Turkish for their undergraduate studies. To collect data, an interview form is used designed by the researchers. By the help of this form, the researchers aimed to determine the participants’ perceptions regarding Turkey, Turkish, four language skills and grammar. For data collection, exit scores of students at the end of the courses were considered. Thus, Mongolian students’ perceptions about Turkey, Turkish, grammar and 4 basic language skills were determined. Students’ perceptions were interpreted with their Turkish learning. As a result of the study, it was found that students produced positive metaphors about Turkey like nature, book and sun. Growing rose and sapling, water and bicycle are the positive metaphors produced about learning Turkish. The metaphors produced about the difficulties of learning Turkish were Rubik’s cube, toy block. They produced such positive metaphors about reading skill as toy and war was the negative metaphor about this skill. Positive metaphors like traffic rule, woman, picture and negative ones such as a huge tree and a game of chess were produced about writing skill. As for listening skill, movie, music were positive and earthquake, noise were negative metaphors. While they produce positive metaphors such as water and lighthouse about speaking skill, they didn’t produce any negative metaphors. There was only one positive metaphor about grammar – flower. When students’ metaphors and exit scores were compared, it was determined that students’ scores were high despite negative metaphors.

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Teaching Turkish as a Foreign Language , metaphor , perception , basic language skills

Abant İzzet Baysal Üniversitesi Eğitim Fakültesi Dergisi

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Abant İzzet Baysal Üniversitesi Eğitim Fakültesi Dergisi