Abstract:

Teaching the native language e is the most important step in transferring a country's culture and values ​​to future generations. Mother tongue education develops students' grammar, reading, writing and speaking skills while providing information about the country's history, culture and art. Literary texts offer students the chance to see a culture's values, beliefs, and worldview. These texts have a great place in the transfer and understanding of values ​​in education and training. This research is a study to determine and analyze the values ​​in Ömer Seyfettin's story "Yalnız Efe". For this purpose, "justice, friendship, honesty, self-control, patience, respect, love, responsibility, patriotism, helpfulness" values, which were determined as "root values" by the Ministry of National Education (2017) and collected under 10 main headings, were sought in the determination and classification of values ​​in the work. As a result of the research, it has been determined that among the values ​​determined by the Turkish national education in Ömer Seyfettin's story "Yalnız Efe", "respect, benevolence, justice" are the values, and it has been concluded that it is a text that can be used in textbooks for Turkish Education and values ​​education.