The effect of technology supported education on language skills in teaching Turkish as a foreign language

In this research, it is aimed to improve the language skills of 47 Hungarian students at the pre-A1 and basic level (A1-A2) who learn Turkish as a foreign language, and to correct their valency errors through technology supported education. The study was designed according to the experimental intervention design from mixed methods, in which quantitative and qualitative data were collected and analyzed and the information was incorporated into an experiment or intervention trial (Creswell & Creswell, 2018). These students used the hizliturkce.com website, which was established by the researcher and includes lecture videos, activities made with the Web 2.0 tool Lumi, chat and live support, and at the same time, online Turkish lessons were given for 18 weeks, in which the teaching of valency subjects was given priority. In the quantitative dimension of the research, Turkish Speaking Self-Efficacy Scale for Foreigners, Turkish Learning Attitude Scale, Written Expression Attitude and Anxiety Scale and Turkish exam were used before and after the application. The obtained data were analyzed with content analysis and evaluated with SPSS program. The qualitative data collection tools of the research are the practitioner researcher diary and the structured student interview form. Content analysis technique was used in the analysis of qualitative data. As a result of the examinations, it was concluded that technology supported education is effective in curing students' valency errors, improved their written expression skills, speaking self-efficacy, written expression attitudes and concerns. According to students the education improved their learning positively, but the interface of the website should be improved and more activities, short stories, Turkish dictionary and level determination exams should be added to the site. The practitioner researcher also observed that students' language skills, information and communication technologies literacy skills improved, but there were problems from time to time with internet, electricity and distance education tools.