A Contrastive study of conditionals in Turkish and English with special emphasis on problems for Turkish learners of english in the light of error analysis

Abstract

ABSTRACT This thesis aims at investigating the problems of Turkish learners of English in the recognition and production of conditional sentences. In order to elicit the diagnosis and explanation of learning difficulties, Contrastive Analysis and Error Analysis are employed as techniques. In Chapter I, the purpose and the scope of the study is explained. Chapter II includes a review of literature on Contrastive Analysis and Error Analysis. In Chapter III, conditional sentences in Turkish and in English are analyzed on the basis of semantic universals and a contrast of significant features of condition als in the two languages is made. The last part of this chapter consists of the predictions of possible error types on the basis of contrastive study. In Chapter IV, Error Analysis is done and possible error types are extracted from the language data obtained from the translation test, administered to the three different groups of students studying at Anadolu University. Also the performance of these students is compared to each other in order to find out the importance of time factor in learning conditionals. In Chapter V, conclusions are given with the implications for teaching conditionals and suggestions for further research are made with the limit ations of this study. 11