Teaching Vocabulary in Turkish Language for Foreigners at Beginner Level Using Suggestopedia Guclu Bekir*, Arslan Mustafa**, Ustunyer Ilyas*** *PhD Student, International Black Sea University, Department of Turkish Philology, anteplim@gmail.com, Kenya **Assoc. Prof. Dr., International Black Sea University, Department of Turkish Philology, marslan@ibsu.edu.ge, Georgia ***Prof. Dr. International Black Sea University, Department of Turkish Philology, ilyas.ustunyer@ibsu.edu.ge, Georgia Author correspondence: Mustafa Arslan, Master and Doctorate Program, Turkish Philology International Black Sea University, Tbilisi, Georgia Email: marslan@ibsu.edu.ge
Online published on 20 June, 2019. Abstract This method aims to motivate students by suggesting them that learning will occur in a comfortable and appropriate environment and to increase their capacity of perception and motivation as a result. Even though it is one the modern language teaching approaches, Suggestopedia has never been matter of research in the field of teaching Turkish language to foreigners. The method is based on using the learning capacity of the human brain in the most effective way. The aim of this study to use the method of Suggestopedia in teaching Turkish to foreigners in basic level and to reveal whether or not the success rates of students on reading, speaking and listening skills would be increased using this method. It was seen result of the applications conducted that students in experimental group learnt more words through reading-comprehension, listening-comprehension and speaking of Suggestopedia method than students in control group who learn vocabulary through. Top Keywords Turkish language for Foreigners, Language learning skills, Language teaching theories, Vocabulary teaching, Suggestopedia. Top |