The Problems that Kazakh Learners of Turkish as a Foreign Language Experience Related to Consonant Changes

While new languages that individuals learn can sometimes be close to their mother tongues, they can sometimes be quite distant from them.At times, they experience negative transmission problem while learning alanguage close to their native language. It is quite likely that Kazakh learners of Turkish encounter this problem and make variety of mistakes especially when writing consonant letters. The research questions of this study are as follows: “Do Kazakh students use consonants through a positive or negative transmission when their writing skills?” and “What kind of solutions should be offered to the problems related to transfer of letters that Kazakh students experience in their writing skills?”A total of 77 Kazakh learners of Turkish as Foreign Language at A2 level made practices through dictation. 3 extracts,selected from 10 texts chosen from the literature as a result of receiving expert opinions in order to be used in the study, were applied to Kazakh students. The researcher allowed the students to write these texts after dictation. The collected data were analyzed by the researcher with the help of Excel softwareprogram. Then, scripts that belong to 11 students were randomly selected from the papers of 77 students. The frequency of errors and types of errors that these 11 students made concerning with the writing of consonant soundson their dictation papers were classified within the scope of sound changes seen in consonant sounds. It was determined by considering the findings of the study that Kazakh learners made various types of errors related to continuity, discontinuity, consonant-vowel changes and other consonant changes.