Grammatical, lexical and phonological control by adults learning Turkish : a corpus-based approach to expanding the Can Do descriptors in the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages

Abstract

This thesis investigates the grammatical, lexical and phonological control of adult Turkish students in order to provide better understanding of the Turkish language development in second language learners. It aims to investigate how the scaled descriptors for spoken production in the Common European Framework of Languages (Council of Europe, 2001) for grammatical lexical and phonological control could be expanded specifically for learning Turkish at A1 and A2 beginner proficiency levels. Finally, in turn it suggests an adapted set of learning scales specifically designed for Turkish language learners regarding grammatical lexical and phonological control based on the empirical data collected amongst Turkish language learners over an academic year.