Abstract:

The present study aimed to identify the problems encountered during the instruction of Turkish as a foreign language abroad and to offer solutions for these problems. In the study, phenomenology, a qualitative research design, was employed. In the study, it was determined that 'the employment of a single audio recording type, audio recording, lack or inadequacy of listening devices', 'problems associated with the difficulties that students experienced in vocalizing alien sounds, 'pronunciation, accent, intonation errors when reading aloud, only reading the texts available in the textbook,' ‘ low writing self-efficacy, writing anxiety, lack of interest, negative attitudes’, ‘grammatical errors, the obstraction of development by previously learned foreign language topics or the native language, negative student attitudes’, ‘lack of motivation, high anxiety levels, lack of technical and technological support, and problems associated with the curricula’. Solutions for these problems have been suggested.

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