ERIC Number: EJ1249790
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Publication Date: 2020-Mar
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The Views of Instructors on Teaching Speaking Skills to the Syrian Students Learning Turkish as a Foreign Language
Educational Policy Analysis and Strategic Research, v15 n1 p197-208 Mar 2020
Having a significant role in communication, speaking skill is an inborn and improvable ability. Since their existence, human beings have consistently improved this ability in order to communicate with others. Besides, one of the most fundamental keystones of making a healthy contact and living in harmony with different societies are no doubt being a proficient speaker of this language. Therefore, the need of speaking Turkish for Syrian refugees forced them to migrate to Turkey, because some political reasons come out and Turkish instruction become vital. Evaluating the speaking skills of Syrian students learning Turkish as a foreign language, through the views of Turkish instructors, is aimed in the present study. The research data were obtained through semi-structured interview questions directed to 11 Turkish language instructors in Adana Turkish Language Education Centres. The gathered data were analysed by content analysis method. The findings of the study suggest that instructors have such difficulties in improving the speaking skill of Syrian students learning Turkish as a foreign language as having pronunciation problems during speaking activities and anxiety while speaking Turkish. Thus, instructors fail to asses Turkish speaking skill despite carrying out various speaking activities to overcome these problems.
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Turkish, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Speech Skills, Foreign Countries, Language Teachers, Refugees, Communicative Competence (Languages), Pronunciation, Anxiety, Error Patterns, Teaching Methods, Student Attitudes, Difficulty Level
International Association of Educators. Egitim Fakultesi Dekanligi, Canakkale Onsekiz Mart University, Canakkale 17100, Turkey. e-mail: secretary@inased.org; Web site: http://epasr.penpublishing.net/
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Turkey; Syria
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