@article{2020,title={ Writing Study with Bilingual Turkish Children Living Abroad},abstractNode={Listening skills begin to develop spontaneously when an individual is born. Similarly, every child who completes a period of physical development without special effort begins to speak when the time comes. When the child reaches a certain age, he starts to acquire reading and writing skills as well as listening and speaking skills. Acquisition of language skills takes place in the following order; listening, speaking, reading and writing. The most recent and learned skill is writing. Because the act of writing is a complex process, requiring physical and mental skills and effort. Primary schools these are the classes in which language skills, which are considered as the beginning of education level, are dealt with at the basic level. In the Turkish course program 2019, first stages of the first literacy process prepare the child for physical and mental literacy, then distinguish the sounds he listens to and write them with the correct letters. This study was designed determine the level of writing words while listening and translate them into letters of 90 students who should have completed the first stage but were born and raised abroad so naturally bilingual. One of the methods of improving writing skills is dictation. In this study, a text was used in the Turkish course of 7th and 8th grades for the purpose and the students were dictated by dictation method. Written papers were collected and examined. However, it was determined that students made more mistakes than expected.},author={Mahir KALFA-Filiz METE},year={2020},journal={Turkish Studies - Language and Literature}}