Abstract
In order to implement the teaching of a foreign language at a desired level and quality, and to offer some practical arrangements, which stand for to the best use of time, efforts, and cost, there is a need for a road map. The road map in teaching is a learning strategy. This article shows how strategies of social language learning and cooperative learning can be used in teaching of Turkish as a foreign language. The article uses the framework of the research made on learning strategies and is based on qualitative research methods. It evaluates the strategies which are connected to the social language learning and the principles of cooperative learning and puts a particular emphasis on the issues which are connected to the process of teaching Turkish as a foreign language by bringing into a discussion such questions as which principles should the learning activities be prepared and what are the roles of students and a teacher. In addition, the article gives some suggestions on how to detect learning strategies of every student and to accomplish their internalization by the students - achieving thus success in teaching Turkish as a foreign language. Key words: Teaching Turkish as a foreign language, strategies of social language learning, cooperative learning.
Highlights
Aim of the researchTeaching and learning a foreign language is a difficult and complex process both for students and for teachers
The article uses the framework of the research made on learning strategies and is based on qualitative research methods. It evaluates the strategies which are connected to the social language learning and the principles of cooperative learning and puts a particular emphasis on the issues which are connected to the process of teaching Turkish as a foreign language by bringing into a discussion such questions as which principles should the learning activities be prepared and what are the roles of students and a teacher
In teaching Turkish as a foreign language, the effective methods will be those which are arranged according to the strategies of social learning and the principles of cooperative learning
Summary
Teaching and learning a foreign language is a difficult and complex process both for students and for teachers. There is a need for research, which will focus on the student experience, by taking into the light how the students learn the material in the easiest way and by bringing into the study the use of learning strategies. In this respect, this article will shed some light on such issues as how the strategies of social language learning and cooperative learning influence the process of language learning and how it is possible to benefit from them in teaching of Turkish as a foreign language. This paper will explain how the social strategies which belong to the classification made by Oxford (1990) can be employed in teaching of Turkish as a foreign language
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