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This study aims to determine the frequency of use of proper nouns, among the vocabulary elements, in the secondary school Turkish textbooks. The study was conducted with document analysis in the survey model, and the research object consisted of eight Turkish textbooks, being two from each grade level of the secondary school. A total of 255 reading/free reading texts in these textbooks were examined in terms of proper nouns. The data analyzed through content analysis were categorized under 13 titles, being “personal names and surnames”, “proper names given to animals”, “place names”, “state names”, “religious names and religion/sect names”, “nation names”, “language and dialect names”, “names of books, magazines, newspapers and works of art”, “names of historical events, eras and periods”, “names of institutions, organizations, boards”, “names of structures”, “names of planets and stars”, “names of events and special days”. According to the findings, proper names are repeated 678 times in 5th; 784 times in 6th; 1050 times in 7th; and 1062 times in 8th grade textbooks. Accordingly, it was found that the number of proper names gradually increase from 5th to 8th grades. Of all the proper names repeated 3574 times in the textbooks, the most frequently used ones are "personal names and surnames" (f=1589) and "place names" (f=863). The most used names are found to be Turk (f=116), Mustafa Kemal (Atatürk) (f=107), Anatolia (f=97), Istanbul (f=85), Karagöz (f=79), Allah (f=56) and Mimar Sinan (f=51).

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