Turkey Scholarships Granted Students at Akdeniz University: Turkish as a Foreign Language (TFL) Learners’ Success and Improvement Considering their Origins and Language Backgrounds
International Conference on Turkey and Turkish Studies, Atina, Greece, 21 - 24 July 2014, pp.20, (Summary Text)
- Publication Type: Conference Paper / Summary Text
- City: Atina
- Country: Greece
- Page Numbers: pp.20
- Akdeniz University Affiliated: Yes
Abstract
This paper presents some background information about “Türkiye Scholarships” program in general with details of the same program offering TFL to 70 students from 43 different countries at the School of Foreign Languages, Akdeniz University. The presentation includes the success and improvement graphics of the TFL learners that have been observed during the period of 960-hour program covering Fall 2013 and Spring 2014 semesters. Besides, the presenters mention the challenges of ‘’Türkiye Scholarships’’ granted students’ program focusing on the learners’ origins and language backgrounds using a proficiency exam as a tool to assess the improvement of language learning process. For this descriptive study, a TFL proficiency test given in the beginning of the program was reapplied after the learners reached C1 level of Common European Framework. The aim of this study is to reshape our teaching program considering TFL learners’ differences due to their origins and language backgrounds to foresee some future solutions of similar problematic environments.