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Cultural Reasons Behind Turkish Students’ Having Difficulty In Learning English   
Yazarlar
Dr. Öğr. Üyesi Onur HAYIRLI
Kırşehir Ahi Evran Üniversitesi, Türkiye
Özet
This is a qualitative research which is conducted through in-depth interview with Englishlanguage instructors in five universities in Ankara, Turkey. To be able to find cultural patterns andreasons of difficulty in learning English, interviews are limited to foreign teachers teaching Englishto Turkish native speakers because the point was to understand non-Turkish instructors’perspective whose culture is different from ours. Also, historical background of foreign languageeducation and social and cultural circumstances surrounding the education system in Turkey aretouched briefly. The history of Turkish people’s interaction with English will also be taken intoconsideration. The aim of the study is to understand not only why Turkish people cannot acquirethe ability to speak, read, write but also have low levels of listening skills in English. This study isnot focusing on only one skill in learning foreign language since the goal is finding out the reasonsof the incompetency in language acquisition with all of its aspects and coming up with reasonablesolutions for the foreign language education system. At the end of this study, by taking intoconsideration the previous literature on the subject, some general difficulties and culturalreasons of having difficulty in learning English language will be highlighted.
Anahtar Kelimeler
Makale Türü Özgün Makale
Makale Alt Türü Ulusal alan endekslerinde (TR Dizin, ULAKBİM) yayımlanan tam makale
Dergi Adı Uluslararasi Avrasya Sosyal Bilimler Dergisi. International Journal of Eurasia Social SciencesVol
Dergi ISSN 2146-1961
Dergi Tarandığı Indeksler TR DİZİN
Makale Dili Türkçe
Basım Tarihi 06-2019
Cilt No 10
Sayı 36
Sayfalar 528 / 537
Makale Linki http://www.ijoess.com/DergiPdfDetay.aspx?ID=2469
BM Sürdürülebilir Kalkınma Amaçları
Atıf Sayıları
TRDizin 1

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