TY  - JOUR
TI  - The views of teachers and students on slang in teaching Turkish as a foreign language
AB  - The aim of this study is to determine the views of teachers and students about the teaching and learning of slangin teaching Turkish as a foreign language. The student-based working group of the study, using a screening modelof quantitative research methods, is composed of B1, B2 and C1 level students who learn Turkish as a foreignlanguage reached by means of easily accessible status sampling method of purposeful sampling methods and theteacher-based working group of the study, using a screening model of quantitative research methods, is composedof teachers reached by the same method. The data of the study were collected by two separate questionnairesprepared by the researchers to determine the opinions of teachers and students. Based on the findings of the study,it was concluded that the majority of teachers and students generally had a positive opinion about the learning andteaching of slang words in Turkish and it was concluded that the students wanted to learn slang words because of“better communication with the Turks”, “hearing too many slang words on the street”, “living in Turkey”, “beingcurious” and “just learning more words”. In addition to this result, teachers stated that this situation which studentsuse without knowing the meaning of some words may cause problems in their social environment. For this reason,it is concluded from the teachers' opinions that either a separate book for the use of slang should be published orthe other slang words except for swearword should be taught in the lessons.© 2020 JLLS and the Authors - Published by JLLS.
AU  - Kardas, Demet
AU  - Boylu, Emrah
DO  - 10.17263/jlls.712655
PY  - 2020
JO  - Journal of Language and Linguistic Studies
VL  - 16
IS  - 1
SN  - 1305-578X
SP  - 73
EP  - 88
DB  - TRDizin
UR  - http://search/yayin/detay/394913
ER  -