摘要：In this study the aim was to determine the perceptions learners who learned Turkish as a foreign language toward Turkish. 100 students, 51 male and 49 female from A2, B1, and B2 levels took part in this research. Each participant was asked to complete the sentence stem “Turkish is like..., because…” to find out the metaphors they used for Turkish. In this study, phenomenological approach which is one of the qualitative research methods was used. According to the findings of the research, participants used 100 valid metaphors. Each metaphor was placed into a group based on the field it was conceptualized in and they were grouped under certain themes. 9 metaphors were discarded as it was not possible to place them into any theme. At the end of the analysis, a total of four different themes were formed (Similarity between Languages, Positive Feeling, Necessity, and Ease of Use). The findings showed that 31 students regarded Turkish as a necessity, 21 found Turkish difficult, 9 made connections between Turkish and their mother tongue or a language which they know well, and 30 had positive feeling toward Turkish.
其他摘要：Bu çalışmada, Türkçeyi yabancı dil olarak öğrenenlerin Türkçeye yönelik algılarının belirlenmesi amaçlanmıştır. Çalışmaya 51’i erkek 49’u bayan olmak üzere A2,B1 ve B2 seviyelerinde Türkçe öğrenen toplam 100 öğrenci katılmıştır. Çalışmada katılımcıların T
关键词：Teaching Turkish to foreigners; metaphor; perception
