Cultural Elements in Teaching Turkish to Foreigners Course Books: A Sample of Yedi İklim
Yabancılara Türkçe Öğretimi Ders Kitaplarında Kültürel Unsurlar: Yedi İklim Türkçe Örneği

Author : Fatih YILMAZ -- Esma Çetinkaya
Number of pages : 121-137

Abstract

This study has been prepared for the purpose of providing a contribution to the field and to shed light on studies to be conducted in teaching Turkish as a foreign language. In this study, the cultural elements in the texts in the Yedi İklim Series A1, A2, B1, B2, C1 and C2 course books published by the Yunus Emre Institute in 2015 have been examined. The purpose of this study is to examine the texts in Yedi İklim Series in terms of cultural elements, subject area, visuality and text type. Subject area, visuality and text type criteria were investigated with taking into consideration, Haley and Austin (2004, s. 93), Byram and Risager (1999, s. 93), Guariento and Morley (2001:347) and the teaching of the cultural elements mentioned in the Common European Framework of Reference for languages. The cultural elements in the course books have been determined in which way it reflects the Turkish culture we refer to as the target culture whether there are elements from the universal culture. Also when the subject field was examined, it is observed that whether the subjects are selected from the Basic Life Experience Field, the name of the unit matter and whether the texts the Turkish Culture the target culture or belong to universal culture. Images in the texts have been examined with the aspect of whether they belong to target culture or universal culture and whether it is a visual photograph, a picture or a cartoon. In terms of type of texts, texts are examined whether the texts are authentic or adapted for the book, if it is authentic what the type of the texts is.

Keywords

Teaching Turkish as a Foreign Language, Yedi İklim Series Course Books, Cultural Transmission, Turkish Culture

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