Abstract
THE STUDY OF SPEAKING SKILLS SELF-EFFICACY OF TURKISH LEARNERS AS A FOREIGNG LANGUAGE IN TERMS OF VARIOUS PARAMETERS
Self-sufficiency as a concept refers to individuals’ beliefs about themselves as to perform expected performance or behavior or overcoming difficulties and being successful in a specific area. In foreign language learning, self-sufficiency of individuals related to learning the target language is a determining factor in terms of achieving the goals. The aim of the present study, is to determine the level of self-efficiency of individuals learning Turkish a s a foreign language, and examining it in terms of variables. The study is a quantitative research, and it is designed according to scanning model. The Scale of Speaking Self Sufficiency Learners Learning Turkish as a Foreign Language” and “Individual Information Form” developed by the researchers are used as a medium for collecting data. In order to analyze the data SPSS 21.0 program and techniques such as arithmetic average, percentage t-test, and ANOVA are used. The level of self-sufficiency of individuals learning Turkish as a foreign language are examined in terms of sex, level of Turkish, age, the period of learning Turkish, the institution in which Turkish is learnt and area of local countries. As a result of analysis, it was found out that there is a meaningful relation between the level of speaking self-sufficiency and the institution in which Turkish is learnt and area of local countries. It was also discovered that there aren’t any meaning relations in terms of other variables.
Keywords
Teaching Turkish to foreign learners, self-sufficiency, teaching speaking, speaking ability, speakin