A survey on writings of Iranian students who learn Turkish as foreign language

Aims of this study are to specify writing abilities of Iranian students who learn Turkish as foreign language, to investigate this success due to different variables and to evaluate students mistakes. The current study, which aims to evaluate Iranian students? writings in Turkish, is a descriptive study. Fieldwork method is choosen and descriptive survey model is used in research. In addition, a mixed analisation method ,which has both qualitative and quantitative features, is used in terms of data analisation. The population of the study consists of 71 students who learn Turkish at B2 level at Tehran Yunus Emre Turkish Culture Center in 2012-2013 academic year. The scope of current study includes students? writings, personal information forms and gradient scoring key which is developed by Büyükikiz (2011) used as measurement tools. First, students? writings were analyzed in descriptive statistic through SPSS 15.0 quantitatively. Pearson product-moment correlation coefficient, t test, Kruskal Wallis, Mann Whitney U has been used in this analisation. Then Students? writings were evaluated through categoric analisation technique qualitatively. Quantitative results of the study show that Iranian students who learn Turkish as foreign language, have an average success in writings and this success has a significant difference statistically in terms of gender and mother tongue variables. Qualitative results of the study show that Iranian students who learn Turkish as foreign language, made mistakes in grammar and punctuation. Besides, students made phonological and morphological, syntactic and process oriented mistakes.