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This study has been executed with participation of 29 foreign-origin students learning Turkish as a foreign language in TÖMER - Fatih University. The Turkish written expression skills have been assessed from the aspect of inflectional suffix errors. The aim of this study is to determine the inflectional suffix failures which the students studying in B1, B2 and C1 levels at TÖMER – Fatih University make through social media organs such as Facebook, Viber, and Whats Up. The social media communications of students have been assessed via content analysis, and the situation determination has been carried out. The data collected via content analysis has been evaluated according to error analysis approach. For this purpose, communications about daily lives have been carried out with chosen students for 3 months in interned medium. The communications to be utilized in research have been collected with students’ knowledge, and the principle of study privacy has been implemented. While determining the failures of students in communications about daily life, the study also provides a natural environment for students via social media. Because the students expressed their emotions and opinions outside the classroom medium and without being given any certain note or topic, any possible anxiety has been eliminated. The data obtained have been evaluated under the topics of inflection suffix and writing errors have been determined. In this phase, it has been determined that students mainly make errors in declensional suffixes and make very few errors in verb inflection. It has also been determined that students make more mistakes in dative inflection suffix and accusative inflection suffix among declensional suffixes, and in possessive suffixes.

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