Research Article

INFORMATION STRUCTURE VİEW OF LEARNERS OF TURKISH AS A FOREIGN LANGUAGE

Number: 158 December 1, 2012
  • Gülhan Ağbaba Maclaren
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INFORMATION STRUCTURE VİEW OF LEARNERS OF TURKISH AS A FOREIGN LANGUAGE

Abstract

This paper focuses on information packaging in Turkish. In the realization of information packing, language may employ distinct components of language which areof themselves operative in the structuring of information structure. Informationpackaging is the structuring of a sentence by syntactic, prosodic, or morphologicalmeans that arise from the need to meet the communative demands of a particularcontex or discourse. Syntax and phonology, by means of word order and prosody,are both responsible for the realization of the information structure units. In particular information packaging indicates how information conveyed by linguisticmeans fits into the contex or discourse. This research is based on 80 students whowere learning Turkish as a second language at TÖMER. The article examines thestudents’ awareness of information packaging in different levels of Turkish. Datawas gathered through a survey that tested the students’ knowledge of scope in –mIand wh-questions

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Primary Language

English

Subjects

Linguistics

Journal Section

Research Article

Authors

Gülhan Ağbaba Maclaren This is me

Publication Date

December 1, 2012

Submission Date

January 1, 2012

Acceptance Date

-

Published in Issue

Year 2012 Number: 158

APA
Ağbaba Maclaren, G. (2012). INFORMATION STRUCTURE VİEW OF LEARNERS OF TURKISH AS A FOREIGN LANGUAGE. Dil Dergisi, 158, 51-61. https://doi.org/10.1501/Dilder_0000000179