Teaching Turkish through Teletandem

Abstract

This study aims at teaching Turkish through teletandem. The Italian learners of Turkish have been given a chance to learn Turkish language, culture and paralanguage through competent native speakers who used free instructional resource, Skype. It has been seen that Teletandem Turkish has developed autonomous learners who have experienced language development in learning and in turn proficient teachers in one of the languages involved in the study. Turkish through teletandem may be suggested for those learning Turkish as a foreign language abroad. (C) 2012 Published by Elsevier Ltd. Selection and/or peer review under responsibility of Prof. Dr. Huseyin Uzunboylu