Özet:

Turkish language that belongs to the Ural-Altaic linguistic family and the Russian language that belongs to Indo-European linguistic family differ greatly in terms of their grammatical construction, syntax, and phonetic systems. One of these differences is the grammatical gender (gender agreement) category of nouns. While the nouns have gender category morphologically in Russian, this is not the case in Turkish. Gender category in Russian appears as a significant grammatical issue that affect adjectives, numbers, pronouns, past tenses of the verbs and formation of participles. Although the Russian is a very systematic language with a great number of rules, it also contains various exceptions. Thus, Turkish students who learn Russian as the foreign language experience great difficulties. In this study, basic principles on teaching the gender categories of the nouns in a short time considering the course hours of the students at Gastronomy Department of Tourism and Hotel Management School of Burdur Mehmet Akif Ersoy University, who takes Russian as a compulsory second foreign language course. Within this framework, the students are introduced a detailed table of gender categories. To that effect, gender category has been analyzed in morphologically. All rules are supported with examples to get to know masculine, feminine and neutral nouns. Afterwards, gender categories of the nouns are further emphasized with possessive pronouns and qualifying adjectives. The difficulties experienced by the students, the mistakes made, solution offers and types of exercises are dealt with.

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