Teaching Aspectual Category in Teaching Turkish to Foreigners Yabancılara Türkçe Öğretiminde Görünüş Kategorisinin Öğretimi

FİDAN D., Salkım G.

Turkiyat Mecmuasi, vol.35, no.1, pp.377-396, 2025 (Scopus) identifier

  • Publication Type: Article / Article
  • Volume: 35 Issue: 1
  • Publication Date: 2025
  • Doi Number: 10.26650/iuturkiyat.1677205
  • Journal Name: Turkiyat Mecmuasi
  • Journal Indexes: Scopus
  • Page Numbers: pp.377-396
  • Keywords: Aspectucal Category, Grammar Teaching, Teaching Turkish to Foreigners, Tense
  • Kocaeli University Affiliated: Yes

Abstract

This study focuses on the aspectual categories in Turkish grammar books used for teaching Turkish as a foreign language. The sample includes Benzer5 and Bölükbaş Kaya6, and the document review method is used to compare and describe the functions of aspect markers suffixed to the verb in Turkish grammar. The study identifies common aspects of the functions of aspect morphemes ({-DI}, {-(I)yor}, {-mIş}, {-A/Ir}, {-AcAk}, {-mAktA}, {-mAdA}, {-(I)yordu}, {-ArdI}, {-AcAktI}, {-mIştI}, {-(I)yormuş}, {-ArmIş}, {-AcAkmIş}, {-mIşmIş}) and suggests ways to incorporate aspect issues in grammar teaching to provide more efficient learning environments and reduce cognitive load for learners. Benzer7 explicitly uses the term "aspect" and discusses language structures for certain language functions, while Bölükbaş Kaya8 discusses aspectual category functions under the title of "tense suffixes" (present, past, future, present and compound tense aspects of these tenses). Both sources found differences and similarities in aspectual features and suggested language levels of the morphemes.