Özet:

In foreign language teaching, when teaching is limited to the classroom environment, reading texts form the basic language entrance. With the emphasis on the original text of the communication approach focused on recent periods, written texts have also taken their old place in the teaching. It is also demonstrated by studies that written works as reading texts are effective in teaching; writing and reading understanding skills as well as contribute to the learning of words. However, the text presented to students must be in accordance with the language and interest levels in order to be able to effectively take advantage of the texts. Language difficulties require the adaptation/modification of the works according to the level, especially for beginner and middle-level students. Therefore, this study is aimed at determining the criteria for the change of stories. For this purpose, it focused on the classifications of Nation (2001) and Sandom (2013) and revealed the modification criteria. After adapting the text to the A1, A2 and B1 levels, the reading scores of the original and modified texts are calculated using the formula of Bezirci and Yılmaz (2010) according to the linguistic characteristics of the texts. The results showed that the original text, the B1 text, the A2 text and the A1 text followed a structure from up to down (from light) in terms of educational levels. In addition to readability points, a questionnaire was prepared for a qualified assessment and five (5) experts were given an opinion on the relevant texts. The query results showed that the standards are mostly applicable. However, it is difficult to make changes at the A1 level.

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