A STUDY ON THE LEVELS OF CONTRASTIVE LANGUAGE COMPETENCE OF GERMAN LANGUAGE TEACHER CANDIDATES

This subject was started to be studied considering the theorem which suggests that the ones whose native language is Turkish have problems in transferring the rule that the affix "-ler or -lar" into German. By means of this study which was conducted in 2008-2009 Academic years, it is aimed to evaluate comparative grammar performance of both students taking their 6th term courses in German Language Teaching Division at Trakya University and MA students. As a result of the study, it was seen that the affix "-ler or -lar" in Turkish was mostly transferred into German as a plural ending. In addition, considerable mistakes were made in choosing personal pronouns, prepositions, conjugations, cases of nouns, and using tenses, and it was concluded that much more activities which will help German Language Teacher Candidates, who have learned German in Turkey, to gain knowledge skills and abilities and overcome such problems in their professional life should be included in four-year German Language Teaching Education Curriculum, and also it was suggested that in-service courses should be organized for graduate students.The study was performed in a certain time period and it is an error analysis study based on comparison.