Mediation Skills in Teaching Turkish as a Foreign Language

Abstract

This study aims to determine the place of mediation skills in teaching Turkish as a foreign language in accordance with the opinions of the instructors. The research is a content analysis study made with the interview technique, one of the qualitative research methods. The study group for the research consists of 14 instructors who worked in Turkish Teaching Research and Application Centers. The data for the study were obtained from the Teaching Staff Interview Form on Mediation Skills in Teaching Turkish as a Foreign Language, which was created by the researchers and contains structured and semi-structured questions. At the end of the research, it was concluded that the instructors included mediation skills in the teaching of Turkish as a foreign language, but there was no standard and systematic teaching of mediation skills.