UZBEK LEARNERS’ OPINIONS ON THE EFFECT OF DIALECT AND CULTURAL SIMILARITY ON THE PROCESS OF FOREIGN LANGUAGE LEARNING

Abstract

The aim of this research is to determine the effect of Uzbeks' views towards Turkish \rlanguage and Turkish culture on language learning processes. In the study, which was designed \raccording to the qualitative research model, a semi-structured interview form was used as a \rdata collection tool. Interviews were held with 33 B1-level Uzbek learners who study Turkish \rlanguage in language teaching centers affiliated to higher education institutions in Turkey.\rAfter the data obtained through semi-structured interviews were transcribed, the researchers \rcarried out coding, categorization and classification according to themes on the raw data. \rAccording to the results of the study, it was revealed that Uzbek learners generally had a \rpositive perception of Turkish language learning processes, life in Turkey and Turkish culture, \rand this situation was directly related to the perception that Turkey provided historical \rcloseness, religion, language, cultural similarity and quality education and life opportunities in \rtoday's conditions for Uzbeks. In addition, it was seen that learners developed a positive \rattitude towards learning because they thought that they were advantageous as speakers of the \rsame language dialects in the language learning process, and they also supported their positive \rview of language with the facilitating effect of vocabulary and grammatical similarity.