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Perceptions of the Greek University Students towards Turkish as a Foreign Language and Their Reasons to Learn Turkish
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نویسنده
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TUNÇEL Hayrettin
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منبع
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journal of graduate school of social sciences - 2016 - دوره : 20 - شماره : 1 - صفحه:107 -128
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چکیده
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The paper aims to investigate the perceptions of greek learners of turkish towards learning turkish as a foreign language, and the driving factors for them to learn turkish. the research has been conducted with the help of 41 participants who currently learn turkish at thessalonica aristotle university. the participants have been asked to respond to a 2 part questionnaire to collect data for this qualitative research. the first part of the questionnaire is designed to obtain the respondents’ demographics. the second part encompasses five questions composed of both open and fixed answers. the questionnaire is set in both english and greek. two closed-ended and one ranking question in the survey and individual informations are transferred to the spss (statictic program for social sciences) program. for the calculation of percent age and frequency related to the all sub-purposes has been used cross-table method. a series of research findings are revealed, as follows: greek learners of turkish have a high tendency to learn turkish; they would prefer to do post-graduate programs in turkey, because turkey is a very close neighboring country, as an extension of the learners’ interest in some particular turkish tv series, seeing turkish as a very different language from european languages, and even for the reason that some students have an ethnic affinity with the cross-border nation. the study also finds out that the greek origin learners consider speaking and listening the most challenging skills in turkish.
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آدرس
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Çanakkale Onsekiz Mart Üniversitesi, Rektörlük Türk Dili Bölümü, Turkey
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پست الکترونیکی
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hayrettin_tuncel@hotmail.com
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