Turkish
Events
As the Turkish Department, we have grouped our aims under three headings:
- To ensure the correct and conscientious use of the mother tongue;
- To engender love for the Turkish language, and teach its characteristics;
- To reveal our students’ linguistic abilities.
- To develop the integrated abilities of listening, speaking, reading and writing, at the basic education stage.
- To teach linguistic rules through use of the language rather than through rote.
- To collaborate with other teachers in supporting student learning.
- To move from examples to rules, from the general to the specific in teaching linguistic rules.
- To encourage students to use all five senses in basic abilities.
- To utilise drama studies, textbooks, magazines, reading texts, novels and stories.
- In addition, during the planning, implementing and evaluating of learning activities;
- to allow students the opportunity to utilise their knowledge;
- to be mindful of individuality
- to choose reading texts with care;
- to plan a variety of activities;
- to move from the simple to the complex, from the concrete to the abstract, from the known to the unknown;
- to encourage students to use language correctly in their daily lives.