Phonological problems encountered in multinational classrooms in teaching Turkish as a foreign language [Çok Uluslu Sınıflarda Yabancı Dil Türkçe Öğretiminde Karşılaşılan Sesletim Sorunları]

In teaching Turkish as a foreign language, one of the most important problems for learners is accurate pronunciation of phonemes. Especially, in multinational classes, learners coming from different language families have difficulties about pronunciation of Turkish phonemes. The reasons for difficulties are supposed as differences, similarities or identical of phonemes in their native language or other languages they learned. Therefore, the purpose of the study is to investigate the reasons for phonological errors of Erasmus students studying Turkish as a foreign language; from which languages they get mostly benefit during the production of phonemes (mother tongue/other different foreign languages they learned); what phonemes are dropped during production; which letters/symbols are replaced for different letters in any word; reasons for positive or negative transferring of vowels and consonants in languages used; and finally which strategies and techniques are used to solve these problems will be searched. © 2015 (publisher). All rights reserved