Abstract
AN EVALUATION ON DISTANCE TURKISH LEARNING BY LEARNERS OF TURKISH AS A FOREIGN LANGUAGE
After the Covid-19 pandemic that emerged in Wuhan, China in December 2019, the mobility in the world has come to a standstill due to the disease spreading rapidly all over the world. The educational life of approximately 2 billion students was affected the most by this situation. Face-to-face education, which was suddenly interrupted, left its place to distance education, catching some institutions, teachers, and students unprepared. This study aimed to establish the experiences of students who learn Turkish as a foreign language after transitioning to compulsory distance education. In this research conducted as a case study, data were collected from 307 students with the "Semi-Structured Distance Turkish Learning Questionnaire after Covid-19" and the data were analyzed by percentage, frequency, and descriptive analysis method. According to the findings, it was determined that the motivation of the students, most of whom had not learned a language through distance education before, was at a moderate level, they attended the lesson aloud, distance education mostly benefited speaking skills, and their teachers thought that they were successful in this regard. However, despite its positive aspects, it was concluded that most of the students found face-to-face education more beneficial and they would still prefer face-to-face education after the pandemic.
Keywords
Covid-19, emergency distance Turkish learning, student experiences.