Abstract
LEVEL OF USE OF LANGUAGE LEARNING STRATEGIES BY LEARNERS OF TURKISH LANGUAGE AS A FOREIGN LANGUAGE
The aim of this study is to determine the language learning strategies of learners who leaner Turkish as a foreign language and to examine the relations between the strategy to be used and the age, gender, mother tongue, education, learning level, number of foreign languages to be spoken except for Turkish, duration of learning Turkish, the institution where it is learnt, ancestry and similar variables.
The research was carried out in 10 different language centers, and 7 of them YETKM and 3 of them TOMER, with 395 subjects learning Turkish language. In the research, the “Inventory of Language Learning Strategies” that was developed by Oxford (1990), was used. The inventory was adopted into Turkish by the researcher and the validity and reliability work was conducted with the participation of 594 students to be used in Turkish teaching to foreigners. The personal information of the students was collected with a “Personal Information Form” that was again prepared by the researcher. The T-Test, ANOVA and Scheffe tests were used to analyze the data.
When the average and standard deviation values of points which they were given from the six dimensions of the scale of the language learning strategies of 395 students in total are looked, the average points of the students vary between 3.22 and 3.75. Since the averages of all categories are higher than 2.40, it is seen that the students do not employ any one of the language learning strategies at a low level.
Keywords
Language Teaching, Teaching Turkish to Foreigners, Language Learning Strategies.
