摘要：The purpose of this study is to determine the levels of perceptions about the intercultural sensitivity and its sub-dimensions of the Turkish as a foreign language teachers and to reveal the opinions on the importance of culture in teaching Turkish as a foreign language. In line with this purpose, it is examined whether the opinions of the Turkish as a foreign language teachers show a statistically significant difference in terms of certain variables such as gender, receiving inservice training, knowing a second language, living abroad, tenure, degree, the number of foreign languages spoken. Furthermore in this study, the importance of culture in teaching Turkish as a foreign language has been examined. The study was performed with “Single Point Aggregation Model”, which is a mixed variation design. The reason for the selection of such model was to collect complementary data for the study and to obtain more reliable results through the identification of the differences between them. The sample of the study consisted of a total of 133 Turkish as a foreign language teachers working in different institutions. The study employed “the Intercultural Sensitivity Scale” developed by Chen and Starosta (2000). The analysis of the quantitative data of the study was performed by means of SPSS 21.0 statistical analysis software program. The statistical methods such as frequency, percentage, arithmetic mean, t-test, one way analysis of variance (ANOVA) were applied in the analysis of the data. The qualitative data were transformed into codes and themes and a content analysis was conducted in the analysis of the qualitative data. The quantitative data of “the Intercultural Sensitivity Scale” in the study pointed out high levels of perceptions for the intercultural sensitivity and its sub-dimensions of the Turkish as a foreign language teachers. The sub-dimension on which the sensitivity of teachers was at the highest was participation in intercultural interaction while the sub-dimension where it was at the lowest was attention to intercultural interaction. The study concluded that the opinions of the Turkish as a foreign language teachers did not show a statistically significant difference in terms of gender, receiving in-service training, knowing a second language, living abroad, tenure, degree, the number of foreign languages spoken. According to the qualitative data of the study, most of the teachers implied that language and culture together form a whole and that language serves as a culture carrier. In this regard, the qualitative data supported the quantitative findings.
其他摘要：Bu araştırmanın amacı, yabancı dil olarak Türkçe öğreten öğretmenlerin kültürlerarası duyarlılığını belirlemektir. Bu amaç doğrultusunda araştırmada yabancı dil olarak Türkçe öğreten öğretmenlerin kültürlerarası duyarlılıkla ilgili görüşlerinin; cinsiyet,
关键词：Culture; intercultural sensitivity; teaching Turkish as a foreign language
其他关键词：Kültür; kültürerarası duyarlılık; yabancı dil olarak Türkçenin öğretimi
