Teaching the Adverbs and Adjectives Express Evidentiality in Turkish as a Foreign Language Classes

Emerging from the concepts of mood and modality, this study includes detailed information about modality-tense and modality-aspect relationships, and modal categories. Discussions on Evidentiality and Epistemic modality described variously in literature take place in our study. Moreover, it is assumed that the adjectives and adverbs analyzed in this study express Evidentiality considering the facts that Evidentiality takes priority over Epistemology logically and evidence plays a primary role in the reliability of propositions. In an effort to explain the meaning and usage of the words analyzed in a context, Document Analysis Method is used. To do so, a sample is generated by gathering sentences for each adverb and adjective from five different newspapers. In the research 12 adverbs and 8 adjectives have been analyzed.In our research, the adjectives and adverbs analyzed are grouped according to Chafe?s modes of knowing and it is showed in which group these words take place in Lyons? objective-subjective modality distinction. These findings cast light upon the understanding of the topic comprehensively in teaching Turkish as a foreign/second language.Additionally, course material samples have been prepared with some of these adverbs and adjectives for teaching Turkish as a foreign language which is included at the end of the study.