The Analysis of the Writing Mistakes of Foreigners Learning Turkish
Türkçe Öğrenen Yabancıların Yazılı Anlatım Yanlışlarının Çözümlenmesi

Author : Ayşin ÖNDER -- Funda Uzdu Yıldız
Number of pages : 100-114

Abstract

The rapid development of different mediums of communication and the increase in scientific, social, cultural and economic relations with foreign countries, have made the learning of a foreign language a necessity. For this reason the number of people wishing to learn ‘Turkish as a foreign language’ is also increasing day by day. This study was conducted to evaluate the writing skills of university students from different nationalities learning Turkish as a Foreign Language, according to the error analysis approach; and to provide suggestions based on the conclusions of the study that could contribute to the Turkish teaching programs. Research group of the study is composed of 65 students who studied at Izmir Dokuz Eylül University Language Research and Teaching Center during the 2015-2016 academic year. Students age range was 18-34 and % 35.4 were Bachelors % 36,9 Master, % 27.7 PHD students. The data used in the study comprises written expression sections from the Certificate Test given at levels A2, B1 and B2 to students. The morphophonologic, morphologic, syntactic, semantic and orthographic errors made by the students in this test were analyzed according to the error analysis method. The error profile was evaluated comparatively according to student language level as well as the intralingual developmental errors framework. The related examples were given out by not distorting the original statements of students. Result identified B1 as the level most associated with student error; while inaccuracies were most frequently seen in the area of the punctuation and spelling. Among a total of 6156 errors, 37.1% were classified as orthographic, 23.4% as morphologic, 23.3% as syntactic, 8.4% as phonemics and 7.8% were identified as semantic errors. In the conclusion of this analysis, various solutions are suggested to eliminate these errors.

Keywords

Turkish as a foreign language, written expression, error analysis, intralingual errors

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