Author(s): Ayten BÃLBÃL⢠Z. Zuhal GÃVEN
It is essential to do qualified needs analyses to evaluate and develop Teaching Turkish as a Foreign Language programs. It is also significantly important for various reasons to detect difficulties in teaching and learning grammar, which is one of main components in language teaching. This study was conducted at Turkish Teaching, Application and Research Center (KOND?L) in Necmettin Erbakan University with an aim to investigate the grammar difficulties that learners and teachers met in learning/teaching Turkish as a foreign language. The study group was composed of 66 international students and 7 teachers. Descriptive survey model was used as a method and the data were collected through a survey with 22 items and 6 components. The collected data were statistically analysed through the SPSS 21.0. The findings revealed that the opinions of students and teachers about the grammatical difficulties they had in learning/teaching Turkish were similar for all the components except for the Nouns component.
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