This study investigates the use of Turkish case markers by learners of Turkish as a second language. Four cases in Turkish language (e.g. accusative, dative, locative and ablative) were examined as the linguistic items of the study. The research data were gathered from L2 learners of Turkish who were studying at a state university in southern part of Turkey as foreign students through the grammaticality judgment task (GJT) and the scrambled sentence task (SST) developed by the researchers, and quantitatively analyzed. Research findings have indicated that the students have a slight difficulty in unscrambling sentences that required the use of multiple case markers, and that the ablative and locative case markers proved the most and least challenging markers for them to use, respectively. The study is hoped to contribute to the existing literature via its findings and practical implications on teaching Turkish as a second language.
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