Ghent University, Belgium 25 April.
1st International Congress of Teaching Turkish as a Foreign Language
ULUSLARARASI YABANCI DİL OLARAK TÜRKÇE ÖĞRETİMİ KONGRESİ
Carl Taylor, the Project Co-ordinator of HandsonTurkish.Com, and Mrs Beyhan Güler, one of the authors of the HandsonTurkish online course, attended the 1st International Congress of Teaching Turkish as a Foreign Language, which was held at Ghent University, Belgium over the weekend April 24-26. They were invited to showcase the innovative and unique software which was built specifically for the Turkish language project.
The conference was organised by Sakarya University, Institute of Educational Sciences and was supported by the Yunus Emre Enstitüsü, Ankara. Speakers addressed various themes related to the study and teaching of Turkish as a Foreign Language.
The touchstone event followed the International Symposium that was held in Ankara in December.
The online course was presented to an audience that showed a keen interest in the project. In particular, the trend away from laptops to access the internet and the role of smartphones and tablet devices such as the iPad as vehicles for eLearning and provision of online language encouraged a lively debate.
A specially designed brochure was distributed at the event and given to participants.
A number of attendees at the conference offered to use the course in their work, and a group of trainee teachers offered their help and support in the further development of the project.
Carl Taylor was able to meet with and discuss the project with Prof. Dr. Şeref Ateş, Vice President of the Yunus Emre Institute in Ankara.
Full speaker list can be found here (PDF download).
The HandsOnTurkish presentation was well attended. Carl Taylor gave the following presentation:
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