Abstract:

Students who learn Turkish as a foreign language have many goals: developing linguistic skills, meeting social-cultural needs, adapting to the academic environment, getting to know the Turkish world closely. In order to adapt academic environment, students need for academic success and competence. In this study, it was aimed to determine the opinions of foreign graduate students related to their academic Turkish language self-efficacy. For this purpose, students studying for graduate studies and learning Turkish as a foreign language were questioned whether they experienced difficulty in understanding postgraduate courses, in reading and writing Turkish scientific text. And also their opinions were got whether they had participated in the scientific activities in Turkey, and their opinions on overcoming the difficulties. In this context, the focus group interview were utilized. In line with the data obtained through descriptive analysis, graduate students had difficulty in academic reading and listening, and at these difficulties such as course content, text structure, and the speaking style of the instructor were effective. And in academic speaking and writing, it was concluded that variables such as not feeling ready himself, the lack of knowledge and to be unable to synthesize paragraphs created difficulty.

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