THE STATUS OF LOCAL DIALECTS IN TEACHING ARABIC AS A FOREIGN LANGUAGE IN TURKEY

Although there are different forms of classification, in general, Arabic is classified in five main groups. These are in order Ancient Arabic, Classical Arabic, Medieval Arabic, Modern Arabic and local dialects which are constantly evolving alongside with the standard language, especially in the last two stages. In the Arabic-speaking regions, the 23 Arab countries, 10 African countries, the non-Arab countries such as Niger and Chad are also included. In this wide geographical area, it is inevitable to be different characteristics in the terms of standard language. This environment has formed a variety of fields of Arabic. Each language has generated the colloquial languages which of the masses of public communicate easier and faster with each other with them depending on a number factors. The diversity of language fields and having difficulty in speaking the literary language due to be more regular and more complexity of standard Arabic for masses of public and similar reasons have led to the emergence of Arabic dialects. In this paper, dialects courses of the students who study Standard (fasih) Arabic in Turkey will be discussed. It will be given information about the textbooks and audiovisual additional resources which are studied in the courses. In this paper will also be given the views of the students about studying Syrian and Egyptian dialects.