Microagresion in Turkish Teaching as a Foreign Language

The concept of culture, which belongs to many disciplines such as Literature, History, Sociology and Folklore, is the most comprehensive definition of a nation's material and moral values. The language learner does not only learn grammatical structures or systems. Together with language learning, it begins to assimilate the culture and values system of that language. Language is a system of indicators and this system is built with cultural elements. This situation brings with it a function which reflects the cultural perspectives of language along with communication. In the field of teaching Turkish as a foreign language, studies were generally conducted based on language teaching sets, and these studies included the identification of the elements of the target culture in the books and the frequency of these elements. In cultural terms, however, communication is not carried out only through books. The behaviors of the instructor in the classroom, the methods of communicating with the learners, body languages and even lesson processing techniques can convey positive or negative messages. Some behaviors that may be called as micro-aggressive attitudes may have negative consequences. These situations may create psychological pressure on the language student or even lead to the development of prejudices about the target culture. These attitudes, which may be difficult to detect from time to time, can be prevented by the teacher's experience, conscious behavior and pedagogical reasoning ability. Thus, both the motivation of the learner and the negative cultural transfer can be prevented