A Linguistic Perspective to the Investigation of Translation Errors of Turkish Learners as a Foreign Language

In the literature, especially it is stated that individuals who learn Turkish as a foreign language and native speakers of English make more comparisons between two languages, and they make more often linguistics errors by thinking in their mother tongue. In this sense, studies on problem-oriented approaches in teaching Turkish as a foreign language become important. The error analysis method, which is one of the problem-oriented approaches, provides an important clue for the second language learning process. Therefore, in this study, it is aimed to determine the most common linguistic errors by English native speaker learners of Turkish as a foreign language and learners Turkish as a second language by using error analysis findings. This study was conducted on 40 learners of Turkish as a second foreign language in B1-B2 level from Middle East Technical University Department of Turkish Language and 40 native speakers of English who are B1-B2 level students at Indiana University Program of Turkish Flagship. In order to determine student errors, the English text “New to Turkey” was given to students and they translated it from English to Turkish. At the result, it was seen that students mostly made linguistic errors which kind of syntactic and grammatical