EDA BÜKÜKNISAN

Univ. Cukurova (TURQUÍA)

Acquiring L2 Turkish By German Adult Learners: A Case Study on the Acquisition of Adjectival and Adverbial Elements

Teoría Lingüística y Metodología

This longitudinal study aims to put light on the word order acquisition of Turkish by adult German native speakers. We will particularly concentrate on the word order of adjectives and adverbs due to the fact that the word order varies in German and Turkish, especially in complex sentences, and the usage of adjectives and adverbs in Turkish mainly differs from that in German. Our aim in this research is to find out whether adult German native speakers transfer previous knowledge of German into Turkish.

The participants in this study are two adult male native speakers of German. One of them stayed in Adana, Turkey, for 2 months. So the data obtained from this participant is very limited. The other participant is currently living in Turkey and learning Turkish as his second language. We recorded his natural speech twice a month. We also utilized some pictures as a task to facilitate the conversation and asked the participant to make up stories from the pictures. He also wrote some compositions in the form of guided and free writing.

The recordings have been transcribed; the data from the written tasks are being analyzed by entering them into the SPSS statistical program. Finally, One-way ANOVA will be applied to the data,and the results will be discussed.


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