TÜRKÇENİN YABANCI DİL OLARAK ÖĞRETİMİNDE DİNLEME STRATEJİLERİNE DAYALI ETKİNLİKLERİN ÖĞRENCİ GÖRÜŞLERİNDEN HAREKETLE DEĞERLENDİRİLMESİ1

Listening is an action both allows an individual to connect with the outside world and nourishes their understanding and narrative skills. Listening skill develops by feeding on other skill areas, especially speaking and writing skills, and is the most used language skill in daily life. For this reason, teaching listening can be defined as  conscious and intentional learning experiences that are planned by taking into account all kinds of situations caused by individual and environmental factors. Effective instruction of teaching listening will improve listening skills positively. Each stage of listening instruction has important processes in itself. It is possible to improve the listening skills of those who learn Turkish as a foreign language with activities to be held before, during and at the end of the listening process. In this respect, the aim of the research is to evaluate the strategy-based listening instruction by taking into the opinions of students of Turkish as a foreign language. 26 students who are learning Turkish at the language application and research center of a higher education institution in Ankara and are at the B1 level were selected as the research group of the research. After listening activities based on strategy teaching were conducted for eight weeks, individual semi-structured interviews were conducted with the students. The data obtained were then made ready for interpretation using content analysis. Based on the findings, it was concluded that most of the students in the research group (n=24) developed a positive opinion about the teaching process using listening strategies among which note taking (n=4), discussion (n=4), working with keywords (n=4), title finding (n=1), gamification (n=1), and technology use (n=1) were the most emphasized strategies. In addition, the students stated that not only their listening skills but also their other skills have improved with the use of strategies, and that they will use  these strategies later, which is among the important results of the research. In conclusion, it was seen that the process based on teaching listening strategies benefitted the individuals who learn Turkish as a foreign language, and various suggestions were given in this respect.