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The aim of this research is to investigate the research conducted on the type of articles and academic papers related to “culture” in teaching of Turkish as a foreign language and to reveal the tendencies on “culture”. In accordance with this purpose, the data were obtained by means of meta-synthesis and it was tried to gain a holistic view of the research on culture in teaching Turkish as a foreign language. The present study is a case study of qualitative research patterns. In determining the studies to be included in the study, it has been determined as the main criterion that they examine any cultural-related dimension of teaching Turkish as a foreign language. Accordingly, 48 articles published between 2010-2020 have been identified. Based on the data revealed by the aforementioned studies, determinations were made on the following topics, especially the results that support or contradict each other in the research areas related to each other: While mixed method was preferred in two of the studies, qualitative methods were preferred in 45 of them, quantitative methods were preferred in none of them. Document analysis (22), interview (9), content analysis (5), meta-analysis (2), survey method and experimental method (1) are the most frequently preferred methods in studies. While certain cultural classifications such as CEFR (7), ICH (3), Brooks (2), Byram (1), Moran (1) are used to make culture, which has a broad and relative concept area, a concrete criterion and to ensure the validity and reliability of the findings, 7 studies do not adopt cultural standards. The most frequently examined samples were textbooks (25), students (5), teachers (3), texts (3). It was tried to reach holistic data by considering the findings of the studies examining similar samples together. Based on these evaluations, suggestions for cultural standards, patterns, methods, samples and subject areas to be adopted by culture-oriented researches are presented.

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