Analysis of the Results of the Survey Conducted on Students Who Learn Russian as A Second Foreign Language and Whose Mother Tongue is Kurdish: Van Yüzüncü Yıl Unıversity Van Vocational School of Tourism-Hotel Management and Tourism Guidance Programmes Example

Kurdish is a widely spoken language spoken in the province of Van, like other cities in eastern region of Turkey. Kurdish has a number of dialects such as Kurmanji, Sorani, Luri, Gorani, Zazaki (Kırdki). Native speakers of Kurdish who lives in Van speaks Kurmanji dialect of Kurdish as their mother tongue. Therefore, there are a significant number native-speaker students of Kurdish at Van Yüzüncü Yıl University . Russian as a second foreign language became an elective beginning from the 2013-2014 academic year fall term in Van Vocational High School of Tourism-Hotel Management and Tourism Guidance Programmes. It is seen that as a result of they interrelated Russian and their native language Kurdish in terms of pronunciation, stress, intonation, word and sentence structure similarities, the native-speaker students of Kurdish who study at the relevant programmes developed different learning techniques compared to other students who aren't native speakers of Kurdish. As a result of this, it became necessary to implement a survey questionnaire and study this situation. This study came out of the review of the data which were collected from the questionnaire applied to the students at relevant programmes during 2015-2016 academic year and analyzed on SPSS.

Keywords

Mother language (official language), mother tongue (native language) (L1), Kurdish, L3, Russian