SOME OBSERVATIONS ON THE SEMANTIC PROSODY OF THE LEXICAL ITEMS IN THE WRITTEN TEXTS PRODUCED BY THE STUDENTS LEARNING TURKISH AS A FOREIGN LANGUAGE

The aim of the study is to analyze the semantic prosodic appearances of the lexical items in the written texts produced by the students learning Turkish as a foreign language . The quantitative and qualitative research methods were adopted in the study. The quantitative data was analyzed by using frequency distribution. As for the qualitative data, descriptive analysis was used. The sample group of the study consisted of 50 randomly selected the students attending Mersin University Turkish Language Research and Application Center, Kocaeli University The Center for Continuing Education, Gaziantep University Department of Turkish Language Teaching and Niğde University Department of Turkish Langauge. During the data collection the students were required to produce a written text based on an open-ended prompt. The data was analysed by using AntConc. The results revealed that the words “bilgisayar” and “internet” were the most to appear. Therefore they were chosen for analysis of semantic prosodies as the node words. Also, it was seen that the words mostly collocated with the lexical items that have negative semantic prosody. Moreover the results indicated that the students couldn’t produce lexically cohesive and coherent written texts because of the inapparopriate word choice arising from ignorance of semantic prosody. .