Abstract:

Being a significant part of native language education in Turkey, Turkish Language Teaching is carried out through Turkish language courses at secondary schools. A variety of problems emerge at the phase of practicing these courses which include many different objectives and acquisitions. It is observed that students remain much behind the targeted level in terms of Turkish language teaching due to such problems. This situation leads to problems related to the lack of efficient and satisfactory use of native language for students in following years of their education. This study aims to reveal the problems encountered in Turkish language education and the reasons of these problems through the views of Turkish language teachers being assigned at secondary schools. In line with this aim, interview method was used as a qualitative research method in this study. The research population consists of Turkish language teachers being assigned in Central district of Muş province while the research sampling consists of thirty Turkish language teachers being assigned in the same place. Semi-structured interview form was used as data collection tool and teachers answered ten open-ended questions. The researchers conducted descriptive analysis on the collected data and various themes were created through the expressions obtained from the answers. According to the results, it was found that teachers encounter many problems in learning fields of Turkish language teaching; an efficient learning-teaching environment cannot be achieved; students could not acquire the necessary skills for secondary school grade in previous grades and they have many deficiencies at the secondary school level. Teachers brought various suggestions towards the resolution of these problems.

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