Error analysis written expressions of Syrian students learning Turkish as a foreign language

There are four basic skills; speaking, listening, reading and writing in foreign language teaching. These four basic skills are divided into two as comprehension and narrative skills. Listening and reading constitute the understanding skills and speaking and writing constitute the expression skills. It is not possible to think these skill areas independently. Foreign language learners are expected to use their speaking and writing skills in order to see what and to what extent they understand and to evaluate them. This emphasizes the necessity of developing writing skills. In addition to increasing the writing skills related to the development of writing skills, it is necessary to determine the mistakes made by the in their written expressions and to minimize these errors. One of the methods and techniques used to identify and classify the mistakes of learners in written expressions is error analysis. This study was carried out in order to analyze the mistakes made by the learners in their written statements. In this study, written expressions of 27 Syrian learners who were learning Turkish at B1 level in Batman University Continuing Education Application and Research Center were formed. The mistakes made by Syrian learners in their written narratives have been solved and classified in terms of phonological, morphological, syntactic and spelling and punctuation mistakes. In the findings of the research, it has been determined that the majority of the mistakes made by the learners are about phonology and punctuation and spelling.