ATATÜRK ÜNİVERSİTESİ’NE ÖĞRENİM GÖRMEK İÇİN GELEN YABANCI ÖĞRENCİLERİN TÜRKÇE ÖĞRENİRKEN KARŞILAŞTIĞI SORUNLAR

Foreign students encounter with various problems and difficulties when they want to learn Turkish. These problems may be indirectly caused by environmental conditions as well as the structural differences of Turkish. The biggest problem in foreign language learning is perhaps the inability to find any possibility to practice languages that are being learned. The best way of learning is possible with the practical implementation by going to the place in which the language is spoken. This provides more effective and long-lasting learning. The number of people who want to learn Turkish increases as our country has been the focus of interest in recent years. Many students have been coming to Turkey from different parts of the world for various reasons. Thus, it is necessary for them to learn Turkish in their orientation process. For that purpose, Turkish courses in universities and Turkish training centres have been established under different names. The first and the biggest problem of the students who do not speak Turkish is the syntactic, structural and audial differences between Turkish and their native language which belongs to different language family. While they are trying to produce Turkish structures they usually fail by being unable to transfer from their mother tongue. In addition to the problems that are caused by the structure of Turkish language and its semantics, some other problems may also occur that will affect and disrupt the language learning process. These problems may originate from lecturers, course materials, training environment, and language teaching institutions, or even from the students themselves and the environment. In this study, a survey has been applied to the foreign students coming to study at Atatürk University and we have tried to make determinations by looking through the eyes of the students who have difficulties in learning Turkish, while making suggestions to avoid these problems.