Examination of The Relationship Between International University Students' Concerns Regarding the Turkish Language and Their Cognitive Awareness in Terms of Some Variables

Abstract

In this study, examining and revealing the relationship between international university students' anxiety about and cognitive awareness of Turkish language; determining the anxiety and cognitive awareness of these anxiety and cognitive awareness according to gender, age, country of origin, duration of stay in Türkiye and the faculty they attend; It is also aimed to examine the anxiety of learning Turkish and their own cognitive awareness and behaviors of international university students, to reveal the importance of their concerns about Turkish language. In addition, whether there was a significant difference regarding the direction of the relationship between the anxiety and cognitive awareness of the international university students about Turkish language in terms of variables such as gender, age, the length of stay in Turkey, the faculty they attend, etc. In the research, descriptive survey model was used as a method. The data in the study were obtained using the scales " Foreign Language Learning Anxiety Scale developed by Horwitz, Horwitz and Cope (1986) " and "Metacognitive Awareness Scale (MAI)". The sample of the research consisted of 175 undergraduates, graduate and doctorate students from different faculties at Samsun Ondokuz Mayıs University. Frequency, percentage, mean values, T-test and MANOVA were used in order to analyse the data. As a result of the study, while the students had a high tendency of anxiety among some countries in terms of the variable of the country they came from, significant differences emerged in terms of the variables such as age, cognitive awareness and the country they came from.