Abstract:

The study, which was carried out in order to study the student's views on the translation of culture in the Turkish language learning process, used the status study scheme from the quality research methods. The study’s study group has been determined with the use of measurement sampling technique from the methods of sampling for the purpose and is included in the 52 study groups of students who have reached the C1 language level, who have been trained within the Turkish Applied and Research Center (TÖMER) associated with a state university. In the research process, semi-configured conversation forms were used to collect data. The talks lasted 15-20 minutes, and in the talks were asked questions to thoroughly explore the process of cultural translation and to detail the subject. The analysis of the obtained data was carried out by three researchers, the analysis process used the content analysis technique. When the results of the study are discussed in general, it can be said that the majority of participants see learning Turkish culture as a necessity in the Turkish learning process and are enthusiastic about it. In addition, it is believed that participants who support the teaching of Turkish cultural subjects learn Turkish in a more purposeful way. In fact, in Turkey, the objectives such as living, getting education appear in the forefront but participants who prefer universal and self-cultural objects do not speak these kinds of objectives. Participants who know a foreign language other than Turkish have also compared foreign language learning processes. The comparison resulted in the fact that learning in the country where the target language is spoken is beneficial to the cultural translation, that in the Turkish teaching books the universal cultural objects are more frequently included but in the English teaching books the English/American cultural objects are more frequently included, that in the Turkish and English teaching processes the cultural translation is intense.

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