POEMS IN TURKISH LANGUAGE COURSEBOOKS AT SECONDARY SCHOOL
ORTAOKUL TÜRKÇE DERS KİTAPLARINDA ŞİİRİN YERİ

Author : Ömer KEMİKSİZ
Number of pages : 284-303

Abstract

This study aims to assess poems in Turkish language coursebooks of 6th, 7th, 8th grades at secondary school in a variety of aspects. To this end, a total of twelve teacher's books, being four books for each grade, are assessed. First of all, the ratio of poems in teacher's book of each publishing house to the whole text is detected, then the distribution of these poems by reading, listening and free reading texts is revealed. Afterwards, information is given about common poems and poets; finally the distribution of poems by themes is assessed. The obtained findings are presented in tables and graphs. According to the research findings, 79 of 438 reading, listening and free reading texts in the coursebooks are poems; mostly 6th grade gives place to poems among all secondary school grades, in reading texts among text types, and in Atatürk themes among all themes. It is also found that thirteen poets and seven poems are common in the books.

Keywords

Turkish language course, coursebook, text type, poem, theme.

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