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While literary texts support the transfer of culture with their cultural carrier feature in language teaching, they also set an example for the use of words in the context in a sentence. The learners will learn the rules and subtleties of the language of the society in which they are learning the their language and therefore they are unfamiliar, indirectly through texts, and will have the opportunity to reinforce what they have learned and improve their reading skills. However, literary texts are not suitable for learners at the basic level in terms of their supra-level structures and words. This situation causes learners to have problems. In this context, it is important to text modification within the framework of textlinguistic criteria. Based on the aforementioned needs and requirements, the aim of this study is to text modification of a selected work from Turkish literature for learners who learn Turkish as a foreign language and to determine the level of understanding of the learners. For this purpose, the study consists of two different stages. In the first stage, the texts named “Caney” and “Çiçek Tefsiri” from the book “Hayat Güzeldir” by Mustafa Kutlu, one of the most important writer of Turkish literature, were modified text to the basic level A2, within the framework of textlinguistic criteria, using the document analysis method. In the second stage, an experimental study was conducted with a post-test control group, one of the quantitative research designs, in order to determine the level of comprehension of modified texts of A2-level learners who learn Turkish as a foreign language. The Learners were randomly divided into two groups as control and experimental groups. There are 20 A2 learners in the control group and 20 in the experimental group. The original texts to the control group and the modified texts to the experimental group were presented through comprehension tests. There are 10 multiple-choice questions in the comprehension tests. Data were collected by these comprehension tests. Descriptive analysis was used in the analysis of the data and the difference between the groups was examined through the SPSS software. As a result of the study, it was found that the comprehension levels of the learners who read the original text and the rate of answering the questions correctly were low; It has been observed that the comprehension levels of the learners who read the modified text and the rate of answering the questions correctly increased. This result showed that the modified text within the scope of the research was more suitable for A2 level learners and increased the learners' level of understanding.

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