AVRUPA DİLLERİ ÖĞRETİMİ ORTAK ÇERÇEVE PROGRAMI VE TÜRKÇE
THE COMMON EUROPEAN FRAMEWORK OF REFERENCE AND TURKISH LANGUAGE

Author : Gülden TÜM
Number of pages : 917-934

Abstract

The Common European Framework (CEF) is a reference document for curriculum and syllabus development, textbook writing, teacher training, and for assessment, and it has gained importance for discussions of AA curricula, and L2 teaching and learning in Europe. However, the CEF may not provide sufficient theoretical and practical guidance to enable test specifications to be drawn up for each level of the CEF. Although it is widely referred to all languages, the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR) remains relatively insufficient for teaching vocabulary. There have been several studies on CEFP on different languages; nevertheless, there has been no single survey carried out in Turkish Language in this field. Therefore, this article tries to find answers by exploring questions of whether the CEFR can help foreign learners of Turkish language to construct vocabulary based on CEFR levels or not; whether the CEFR scales are sufficient to communicate at various levels; and then to what extent the most common words in Turkish should be included. The findings of this study indicate that application of CEFR, especially in teaching vocabulary, seems to be complicated to build or acquire for some languages which have different characteristics when compared to common European languages.

Keywords

Teaching Turkish as a foreign language, Turkish vocabulary, Common European Framework

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