Use and Revitalization of the Laz Language Under Threat of Being Lost in Türkiye

International Conference on Lifelong Education and Leadership for All (2024), Budapest, Macaristan, 9 - 11 Temmuz 2024, ss.14-15

Yayın Türü: Bildiri / Tam Metin Bildiri
Basıldığı Şehir: Budapest
Basıldığı Ülke: Macaristan
Sayfa Sayıları: ss.14-15
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet

Özet

In Turkey, in the context of internationalization and globalization in education on the way to joining the European Union (EU), the Ministry of National Education (MoNE) has included the teaching of Abkhazian, Adyge, Georgian, Kurmanjî, Laz, Zazaki, Albanian and Bosnian languages, which are among the languages spoken locally and considered endangered by UNESCO, in the course catalogues as elective courses at the secondary school level since the 2012-2013 academic year. These languages have been taught only in public secondary schools as part of the Living Languages and Dialects course under the Circular on Elective Courses since 2012.

Since 2012, as a state policy to keep the Laz language alive in the local area, "Laz Language Instructor Training" in-service training courses have been opened by the Ministry of Education in order to train educators who will teach Living Languages and Dialects Laz Courses in secondary schools. In this study, it is aimed to examine the survival of Laz language through education from the reflections of the trainees who participated in the in-service training courses for the survival of Laz language in the context of Living Local Languages and who will voluntarily undertake the role of trainers for the survival of Laz language. The study group of the research consists of 16 trainee participants who attended the In-Service Training Courses for becoming a Laz language instructor. The data were collected through semi-structured interview technique. The data were analyzed by content analysis method.