Language needs analysis of adults in Turkish as a foreign language in Sweden

This study refers to specify language-learning needs of adult who learn Turkish as a foreign language at the Swedish Stockholm Folkuniversitetet (İSFM) and aimed to prove that differences of needs with according to variables as age, gender and education. Iwai et al. (1999) developed under the name of "Japanese Language Needs Analysis 1998-1999" and "Questionnaire On The Needs in Turkish Learning" developed by Çangal (2013) adapted for the scale was used for research. The scale was rearranged by taking the opinions of ISFM Turkish Instructor. The data is collected with the study presented to the participants in English. The study group of this study is including 65 students who have completed Turkish learning course in ISFM at years between 2016 and 2017 and filled the research scale. The collected quantitative data within the scope of the survey that evaluated with statistical analyses and also the support of qualitative data. Non-parametric tests are used for quantitative analysis; non-parametric independent samples are used with Mann-Whitney U-Test and Kruskal Wallis H-Test. SPSS 23 software is used to analyse the collected data and obtained results are presented with based on qualitative data. According to the data that obtained from the survey, the needs of language-learning of the Turkish language learning trainees in ISFM have emerged in four sub-dimensions: Communication with Each Other During in the Class, Individual Interests and Needs, Education and Job Opportunity and Trade Making with respectively. Eventually, when the ages of the trainees increase, they tend to "Trade" and they mostly need to improve their speaking skills.