Abstract:

The aim of the study is to determine the research tendencies of postgraduate theses related to the textbooks on teaching Turkish as a foreign language. For this purpose, document analysis, one of the qualitative research designs, was used in the study. The data source of the research was created by scanning in the Council of Higher Education Thesis Center according to certain key concepts. Publication Classification Form was used for theses in the data source. The data were analyzed with the descriptive content analysis method. As a result of the research, it was determined that 155 postgraduate theses were prepared in 37 different universities for the textbooks of teaching Turkish as a foreign language. 139 of them are master thesis, 16 of them are doctoral dissertations. The first thesis on the subject was completed in Istanbul University in 1995 and most of the thesis was completed at the same university. The most theses related to teaching Turkish as a foreign language coursebooks was prepared in 2019. It was seen that in the theses examined, the subject of culture transfer was mostly covered, followed by vocabulary enrichment and texts. It is also among the results that qualitative research method and A1-A2 level textbooks are preferred more.

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