The Views of Instructors on Teaching Speaking Skills to the Syrian Students Learning Turkish as a Foreign Language

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 ha...

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Published inEducational policy analysis and strategic research Vol. 15; no. 1; pp. 197 - 208
Main Authors Gun, Mesut, Yigit, Ali
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published International Association of Educators 24.03.2020
Subjects
Anxiety
Communicative Competence (Languages)
Difficulty Level
Error Patterns
Foreign Countries
Language Teachers
Pronunciation
Refugees
Second Language Instruction
Second Language Learning
Speech Skills
Student Attitudes
Teacher Attitudes
Teaching Methods
Turkish
Syria
Turkey
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Summary: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.
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ISSN:1949-4270
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1949-4289
DOI:10.29329/epasr.2020.236.11