Yabancı Dil Olarak Türkçe Öğretiminde İletişimsel Yaklaşımın Deyim Öğretimindeki Başarıya Etkisi
Özet
The aim of this study is to investigate the effectiveness of communicative approach
while teaching idioms in teaching Turkish as a foreign language.
To address the purpose of the study, the explanatory sequential design which is one of
the mixed methods was adopted. There were fifteen participants in the experimental
group four of whom were females while eleven of them were males. On the other hand,
the control group was consisted of fourteen students three of whom were females and
eleven of them were males. The study was conducted in the spring semester of 2016-
2017 academic year with a total number of twenty nine students. Participants were B1
level students at Atatürk University DILMER and the participants in both groups were
selected randomly. Idiom recognition and comprehension test was developed by the
researcher as one of the data collection tools. It was applied twice as pre-test and posttest
to determine the recognition and comprehension level of students in terms of
idioms. Moreover, the data gathered through the pre-test and post-test were analyzed
through PASW Statistics 18 program. Idioms in the test were selected from the reading
texts of the course book and workbook of Istanbul-Turkish for Foreigners B1 level.
Eight lesson plans designed based on communicative approach were carried out to the
experimental group; in addition, the reading texts and their activities of Istanbul-Turkish
for foreigner B1 level course book and work book were applied to the control group.
The study itself took six weeks. Furthermore, semi- structured interview form
developed by the researcher as another data collection tool about content and process of
courses was applied to fourteen students of the experimental group to support
quantitative data. The data obtained from interviews were analyzed descriptively.
According to the findings obtained from the study, while there was no statistically
meaningful difference between both groups in the beginning of the study, both of the
groups exposed different teaching processes made progress. However, the experimental
group had higher grades than the control group. Besides, it has been understood that the
views of students about lessons based on communicative approach in the process of
teaching idioms are seen to be positive and to make the teaching process more amusing
and easier. It can be stated specially designed and communicative process of teaching
idioms should be carried out Turkish as a foreign language to be more effective.
