Abstract:

Turkish has been on its way to becoming a universal language by increasing the number of users and learners in recent years. In order to teach Turkish, Turkish Teaching Sets for foreigners have been prepared. We witness the mysterious and interesting feature of our language through the proverbs and idioms used in these sets. These stereotypes have been included in teaching sets and textbooks as an indispensable part of cultural transfer. Since the first reference source for a language learner is textbooks, the first cultural elements we come across in language learning and teaching studies are idioms and proverbs. The purpose of this study is; to determine the proverbs and idioms in the Yedi İklim Turkish Course Book (C1), prepared to teach Turkish to foreigners, to examine the distribution of these stereotypes to the themes in the textbook and to reveal the roles they undertake as a cultural transfer tool. Qualitative research method was used in the study process. At the beginning of the study, a literature review was conducted and the data was obtained, and then the idioms and proverbs were determined according to the data obtained in accordance with the documentary scanning technique, which is a qualitative research method. In total, 540 idioms and 37 proverbs were found in the texts and activities in the book. It is seen that the proverbs and idioms determined have traces of Turkish culture and are generally used in sentences we make in daily life. As a result, the situation was determined and the roles of proverbs and idioms in cultural transfer were specified. In addition, the necessity and importance of the cultural transfer they undertake in the language teaching process in Turkish teaching were revealed.

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