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INTERACTION LEVEL OF SPEAKING ACTIVITIES IN A COURSEBOOK SERIES OF TEACHING TURKISH AS A FOREIGN LANGUAGE

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İstanbul University, Hasan Ali Yücel Faculty of Education, İstanbul-Turkey

HAYEF: Journal of Education 2015; 12: 133-145
Read: 4939 Downloads: 1154 Published: 21 December 2015

Informed by the principles of communicative foreign language teaching, this study focuses on the interaction level of speaking activities in the coursebook series of ‘İstanbul- Yabancılar İçin Türkçe Ders Kitabı’. To this end, the study analyzed firstly the rate of two-way speech to one-way speech among speaking activities and then the characteristics of two-way activities were explored with a focus on their compatibility with the nature of real interaction as described in the relevant literature. The analysis revealed that the activities named as two-way as a preliminary characteristic of being interactive are rather few in number and fifty six percent of the two-way activities display the other features of real interaction. Overall, the interaction level of the speaking activities could still be considered low within the total number of speaking activities. 

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