Abstract:

In foreign language teaching, the texts are divided into two, fictional and authentic texts according to the purpose of creation, and the texts of both types are used in foreign/second language teaching books. In this study, the New Headway Teaching Books set prepared for the purpose of teaching foreigners Turkish and the text included in the New Headway Teaching Books set prepared for the purpose of teaching English as a second language was first classified as fictional and authentic, then the authentic text was studied in the axis of language skills. In the study, the visual analysis of the qualitative research methods was used, the data was analyzed with the Maxqda Pro program. When the two sets of textbooks were studied, it was found that fictional texts at each level were quantitatively more listed than authentic texts. The authentic texts in the Turkish curriculum books are most read and the authentic texts in the New Headway curriculum books are aimed at developing the most speaking skills. The areas of reading and speech learning are the language skills most frequently discussed together in the New Headway curriculum books, while the language skills most frequently discussed together in the Turkish curriculum books for New Hitit foreigners are defined as reading and writing.

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