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Oh that's nice. I'm glad to see you here as well. I find Dialogues completely useless at the early stages of teaching Turkish. If I would ever use them it would be at upper advanced level.
Unfortunately the communication based strategy to teach English is not suitable to teach Turkish. Turkish has a completely different grammatical structure. In English you learn a word somewhere and use the same word elsewhere. There are hardly any suffixes at all. But you cant do this with Turkish easily. We have so many suffixes, without the proper knowledge of suffixes you can never build a vocabulary which is the main point I belive.
For this reason I use a text based strategy in my lessons. But the main point I belive are not the suffixes. Mistakes with suffixes can be corrected by time easily. I belive the main point is vocabulary. As long as the learner is able to understand the given limited vocabulary and is able to use them even with the wrong suffixes I wouldnt care.
My suggesion is, forget about daily speech, forget about dialogues and forget about for instance greetings etc. I find it useless to teach a so called tourist Turkish. Also pronounciation is the least important issue I belive since it will correct itself on its own with time.
How can you possibly teach sentences like this:
Seninle tanıştığıma çok memnun oldum.
Umarım yine görüşÃ¼rüz.
There are lots of suffixes. You need to get rid of suffixes and only introduce them one by one. Like the question suffix and then the negative suffix and then the plural suffix etc.
Now lets have a look again to the sentences:
Tanışmak çok güzel.
Tekrar görüşmek istiyorum.
As you see I removed the suffixes and transformed the sentences to a simple structure. Now it should be easier to understand. The infinitive is easy to use because you can find it easily in the dictionary. All other words the learner needs to know should be introduced in different contexts.
For instance if you want the learner to learn the word "tekrar" you could make up some simple stories. You could include that word in a text like this "Türkiye çok güzel. Tekrar gelmek istiyorum." As you see "istiyorum" can be very handy.
In my lessons I never tell the whole story from the befinning on. I mean I dont mention the details and I pretend they are not existing. For instance once I was teaching the simple past tense and we had gone a few lessons already with the simple past and the learner still new only these suffixes:
dı di du dü
I didnt mention from the other four tı ti tu tü until the learner felt comfortable with the former ones.
Consonant harmony is too complicated. I suggest dont mention it and avoid that kind words untill intermediate level.
Vowel harmony is a simple and basic issue and it is a good idea to tell about it at early stages. It is good because there are always two kinds of suffixes so you need to explain why.
To make things even easier you can tell that the whole Turkish vocabulary consists of two group of words: the hard sounding words and the soft sounding words. I now this isnt exactly true since there are exceptions like present continuous tense (istiyorum, gidiyorum etc have both hard and soft sounding vowels) but it is almost true, right?
Have a look on this list and try to use them at the beginning.
http://www.turkishclass.com/forumTitle_13_601
You will decide on your own lessons but these are my tips:
-before you introduce something new include it somewhere accidentially but dont explain. Possibly include it in your stories.
-introduce bu but dont use dır dir vb.
Bu televizyon. But not "Bu televizyondur".
-no suffixes at the beginning except mak -mek
-introduce vowel harmony
-introduce imperative
-negative and question suffixes
-adjectives
-introduce "istiyorum" (I want)
without telling about personal suffixes.
-introduce "var" "yok"
-introduce ve, veya, ama
-introduce burada , orada, şurada
-introduce plural suffixes
-introduce simple past tens with only dı,di,du,dü and not tı,ti,tu,tü
At this stage the learner should have read at least 4 simple stories and should have done at list 20 pages of exercises. The vocabulary at this level should consist of at least 500 words and verbs should be not more than 150.
have a look on these pages:
http://www.turkishlanguage.co.uk/index1.htm
http://www.turkishclass.com/basicMain.php
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