Methods and techniques used by Turkish prospective teachers while teaching Turkish wedding-themed folk songs in Tfl

Folk songs, reflections of cultures in languages, are considered as one of the facilitating factors of learning a foreign language because they are cultural heritage about happenings, common feelings like love, longing, homesickness, national characters and annals. There are several studies on Turkish as a foreign language (TFL) but no study on the place of wedding concept in Turkish Folk Songs was encountered. Therefore, this study aims at investigating any methods and techniques prospective teachers would use while teaching TFL during Turkish lessons. In order to shed light in this subject, 81 wedding-themed folk songs, each of which represents one city in Turkey are investigated regarding foreign language teaching. The research questions are framed in how prospective teachers apply language teaching methods and techniques for wedding folk songs in teaching TFL and how they utilize language skills and activities during teaching process. The results reveal that prospective teachers are sensitive to choose songs but feel limited to find a variety of methods and techniques since they merely focus on vocabulary teaching via words or idioms in lyrics rather than teaching linguistic patterns including morphological, phonological or syntactic ones). © The Turkish Online Journal of Educational Technology