THE STEREOTYPES of the STUDENTS fron the TURKISH
REPUBLICS |
| Baki KARABAYEV Ömer F. TUKUN |
The purpose of the study was to research the judgements of Azerbaijani, Turkomon, Kazak and Kyrgyz university students, who came from their countries to Turkey and are educated in Turkey, about the Turkish Republic citizens. According to the results; 1- 34 adjectives are used to get information. Half of them have positive meanings while the others have negative meanings. The students have marked a total of 3122 adjectives. 2) Female students have more positive opinions about their Turkish friends than males. 3) The younger students have more optimistic ideas than the older. When the ages of the students increase, the number of the adjectives having positive meanings decreases. 4) The Kyrgyz students have the most positive opinions while the Azerbaijani students are the most negative ones. 5) The students, who have been living in Turkey at most for one year, have used the least negative adjectives. The students, who have been living in Turkey for six years or more, have the most negative opinions than the others do. 6) While students who study at Ankara, Erciyes, Selçuk and Niğde Universities, have more positive feelings, the ones, studying at METU and Hacettepe Universities have less positive feelings. 7) a) The
students who have the most positive opinions are attending teachers training programs. b)
The students who study engineering have both positive and negative opinions. c) The
students who study medicine and business administration have the most negative
opinions. |
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