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In this study, the textbook named Tangram was analyzed in terms of pluricentricity and variability of the German language. German is a pluricentric language (pluricentric languages: differing norms in different nations). On the one hand, this can be seen as a wealth for the German language, but on the other hand, it is a situation that needs to be studied in terms of methodological and didactic aspects in the lessons where the German language is taught as a foreign language. In this context, we focused on the questions of which standard German and how much of this language diversity should be given to German learners. Because we believe that the answers to these questions will contribute to the development of a tolerant understanding of the differences in German-speaking environments. There is a need for finding answers to these questions with the help of a textbook analysis. This study consists of two separate parts where the concept of pluricentricity will be explained as theory and practice. In the theoretical part, accepting the German language as a pluricentric language, information will be given about its terms and main concepts, as well as its teaching and its application in the lessons. In the second part of the study, the application section, we analyzed how these pluricentric understanding and country knowledge issues take place in the book and we also give brief information about the fiction and content of this book. We hope that the analysis of this coursebook in terms of the perspectives mentioned above will contribute a lot to the selection of the coursebooks to be used in the field of teaching German as a foreign language.

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