E-LEARNING TURKISH LANGUAGE AND GRAMMAR: Analyzing Learners' Behavior

dc.creator	Panagiotis GEORGALAS
dc.date	2012-01-01T00:00:00Z
dc.date.accessioned	2015-07-20T22:06:15Z
dc.date.available	2015-07-20T22:06:15Z
dc.identifier	1302-6488
dc.identifier	https://doaj.org/article/fa1e32e1d63f4cb39d983de08f1834bd
dc.identifier.uri	http://evidence.thinkportal.org/handle/123456789/10372
dc.description	This study analyses the behavior and the preferences of the Greek learners of Turkish language, who use a particular e-learning website in parallel with their studies, namely: http://turkish.pgeorgalas.gr. The website offers free online material in Greek and English language for learning the Turkish language and grammar. The traffic of several modules of the website has been measured, examined and analyzed. The research was carried out between the years 2010- 2011 and included the analysis of several million clicks. The results show particular attitudes, habits and preferences throughout the e-learning process. There is a preference of users to exercises against theory. Fast cross-link exercises are preferred to slower “fill in” ones. During the weekends, visitors tend to use less e-learning facilities and select more light activities than the rest days of the week. Society trends and fashions like TV serials have a serious impact to the number of people who decide to learn a new foreign language, in particular Turkish. There is a strong preference of the audience to use online TV against online radio facilities for language practice. The subjects that Greek learners of Turkish language spend more time are verbs conjugation and vocabulary learning. They focus on elementary grammar subjects like the Alphabet, the numbers and the formation of plural. Finally, they try to learn the syntax of Turkish language through sentence structure puzzles and give priority to special grammar issues like noun compounds that are not present in Greek language.
dc.language	English
dc.publisher	Anadolu University, Eskisehir
dc.relation	https://tojde.anadolu.edu.tr/tojde46/pdf/article_4.pdf
dc.relation	https://doaj.org/toc/1302-6488
dc.source	The Turkish Online Journal of Distance Education, Vol 13, Iss 1, Pp 87-99 (2012)
dc.subject	e-learning Turkish
dc.subject	Turkish grammar
dc.subject	Turkish language
dc.subject	Special aspects of education
dc.subject	LC8-6691
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.subject	DOAJ:Education
dc.subject	DOAJ:Social Sciences
dc.subject	Special aspects of education
dc.subject	LC8-6691
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.subject	DOAJ:Education
dc.subject	DOAJ:Social Sciences
dc.subject	Special aspects of education
dc.subject	LC8-6691
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.subject	Special aspects of education
dc.subject	LC8-6691
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.subject	Special aspects of education
dc.subject	LC8-6691
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.title	E-LEARNING TURKISH LANGUAGE AND GRAMMAR: Analyzing Learners' Behavior
dc.type	article