CEFR Işığında Türkçenin Yabancı Dil Olarak Öğretimi Programı

Abstract

Turkish Maarif Foundation, an institute teaching Turkish as a foreign language (TFL) worldwide, is an important institution in the field. The foundation applies TFL Curriculum approved in November 2020 by the MoNE Board of Education in Türkiye. The purpose of the current study is to elucidate to what extent the Turkish as a Foreign Language curriculum utilized by Türkiye Maarif Foundation. The approved curriculum overlaps with the meta-text entitled Common European Framework of References for Languages (CEFR, 2020) as to teach languages in Europe. In the study, the outcomes for speaking and writing skills at B1 Level are taken into account as the level accepts learners as independent users. To collect qualitative data for this descriptive research, a document analysis was performed on the descriptor scales of the curricula, in terms of speaking and writing activities in the Turkish course books prapered, published and utilized by one State University in Ankara, Turkey. Findings reveal that CEFR defines more general outcomes because of its role as a meta-text providing recommendations for language teaching and learning, whereas TMF provides more details developed and deduced from these references. The reason for having more details calibrated in TMF descriptors results from the fact that it subdivides the outcome according to the contents of descriptors. Hence, the subdivided descriptors appear in high quantity calibrated separately in TMF Curriculum. Consequently, the number of outcomes calibrated in TMF is observed rather high compared to CEFR ones. Yet, there are striking results displaying how the outcomes cohere, indeed. As the studies conducted in this field appear limited, it is assumed that the current study will contribute to those working in the field.