An Analysis of Native and Foreign Language Competence of Turkish Young Learners

Autor/inn/en	Kiziltan, Nalan; Atli, Isil
Titel	An Analysis of Native and Foreign Language Competence of Turkish Young Learners
Quelle	In: Journal of Language and Linguistic Studies, 14 (2018) 2, S.252-264 (13 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Kiziltan, Nalan) ORCID (Atli, Isil)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1305-578X
Schlagwörter	Semantics; Second Language Learning; Second Language Instruction; Turkish; English (Second Language); Grade 4; Elementary School Students; Pictorial Stimuli; Content Analysis; Computational Linguistics; Language Acquisition; Writing (Composition); Native Language; Language Proficiency; Spelling; Error Patterns; Foreign Countries; Contrastive Linguistics; Turkey + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Semantik; Zweitsprachenerwerb; Fremdsprachenunterricht; Türkisch; English as second language; English; Second Language; Englisch als Zweitsprache; School year 04; 4. Schuljahr; Schuljahr 04; Fantasieanregung; Inhaltsanalyse; Linguistics; Computerlinguistik; Sprachaneignung; Spracherwerb; Schreibübung; Language skill; Language skills; Sprachkompetenz; Schreibweise; Fehlertyp; Ausland; Kontrastive Linguistik; Türkei
Abstract	Language acquisition is used for the process where a language is acquired as a result of natural and largely random exposure to language, whereas the term language learning refers to the exposure structured through language teaching. Children acquire language from 18 months to puberty. The child's grammar is semantically based. Children reflect their competence through their performance. The aim of this study is to analyse their competence in both native and foreign language written texts they produced. Additionally, this study discuss if there is a significant difference between their performative competence level in Turkish and English. Therefore, 28 fourth graders were given a coloured picture representing a daily life of a family and they were asked to depict the picture in English and Turkish. Their written texts were discussed by Content Analysis and a corpus analysis. It has been found that how language acquirers write a text in Turkish and how well they reflect their foreign competence. It has been also shown that they were unable to use required foreign language competence because of lack of native language competence. Besides, they committed some spelling errors in foreign language. (As Provided).
Anmerkungen	Journal of Language and Linguistic Studies. Hacettepe Universitesi, Egitim Fakultesi B Blok, Yabanci Diller Egitimi Bolumu, Ingiliz Dili Egitimi Anabilim Dali, Ankara 06800, Turkey. e-mail: jllsturkey@gmail.com; Web site: http://www.jlls.org
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2020/1/01