THE PURPOSES OF BOSNIAN STUDENTS LEARNING TURKISH AT UNIVERSITY OF SARAJEVO

In Today's world, teaching of foreign languages has gained a gread importance. People need foreign language to have a good career, to pursue their academic studies and for various business purposee. Language teaching in the world is very old. Divanü Lugati’t-Türk is the first work of teaching Turkish to foreigners. Faculty of Philosophy of Sarajevo University has started to teach Turkish at 1950. The aım of this study is to investigate the purposes of students learning Turkish at University of Sarajevo. A qualitative research method was used for purposes learnig Turkish. In this study, was totaly 50 student joined. At spring semester of 2011-2012 academic period, the mentioned students were asked to write their views about purposes learning Turkish. The data is get from these documents. The analysis of survey data was carried out by induction analysis which is a method of content analysis. The results were sorted and analysed according to analysis of content. With respect to findings obtained from the data, the students evaluated the applications at five main categories as personal and occupational perspective. The obtained data were interpreted by going through also related studies and a proposal maked. As a result of evaluation the students learned Turkish that, for acedemic skills, business, careers and communiciation. In the light of these findings, some suggestions are presented for the Programs of Turkish Language Teaching