Thesis Type: Postgraduate
Institution Of The Thesis: Ataturk University, Eğitim Bilimleri Enstitüsü, Eğitim Bilimleri Anabilim Dalı, Turkey
Thesis Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Melik Bülbül
Approval Date: 2013
Thesis Language: Turkish
Open Archive Collection: AVESIS Open Access Collection
Supported Program: Teaching Staff Training Program
Abstract:
The aim of our study, titled German teaching as a foreign language through literary texts, is to explicate the benefits of foreign language teaching with the literary texts in terms of the target language learner and to explain the skills, cultural knowledge and language skills to what extent can be transferred to the student via this method. The population of this study consists of the students in first degree in Atatürk University in Kazım Karabekir Faculty of Education. Our sample is 23 of the students attending in first degree who were selected randomly. Our sample and the courses given to this sample group are the basis of this study. We tried to analysis by observation the students’ positive and negative attitudes towards to the course given with the help of literary texts, to what extent they use the four basic skills which are speaking, listening, reading and writing and to what extent they apprehend the culture and the grammar of target language through literary texts. As a result of our researches and observations, the students’ basic skills, the grammar and the culture of the target language can be taught or developed largely through literary texts.
Key words: four basic skills, language teaching through literary texts, culture, grammar