Özet:

Words form the basis of a language. During the language teaching process, the learners acquire new words through the help of the course materials used in the communication environment and teaching process. Researchers stated that the words which are used the most frequently should be taught during this process and they also carried out frequency studies to determine the frequency of the words. Studies carried out on the word frequency provide important data for language teaching. These studies should be carried out more often on textbooks since these textbooks constitute the main source. These studies carry great importance in terms of determining the vocabulary items in the teaching process, determining the words to be taught at different levels and in terms of preparing the materials suitable for the teaching. Based on this importance, in this research it was aimed to determine the words, idioms, reduplications, proverbs, rhymes and riddles among the vocabulary items included within the textbooks used during the Turkish teaching process. For this purpose, the study was carried out with the case study pattern, which is one of the qualitative research methods. The data source of the research was formed by the Turkish teaching set prepared by the Van Yüzüncü Yıl University for teaching the Turkish language to the foreigners. In this research, the data on the vocabulary items used within the Turkish textbooks for foreigners were collected through document analysis; content analysis was used for the vocabulary, while the descriptive analysis was used to determine the frequencies of the vocabulary items. According to the data obtained from the research, idioms were the most commonly used vocabulary items in the textbooks after words. They were followed by reduplications, proverbs and rhymes, respectively. Riddles were not included in any of the textbooks.

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