Abstract:

In teaching Turkish to foreigners, it is aimed to provide students with grammatical structures apart from developing students' reading, listening, speaking and writing skills. Instructors usually conduct the process based on the textbooks, which are the main resources, and when the books are insufficient, the need for supplementary resources arises. Yunus Emre Institute is trying to address the needs of teachers and learners with the supplementary resources which have been prepared to be used in teaching Turkish to foreigners. The "Voice of Turkish Yunus Emre" set, prepared by experts within the Institute, takes attention as supplementary reading books for foreigners learning Turkish. Although it is important to develop basic language skills in language teaching, one of the important dimensions of teaching is to introduce the cultural values of the target language to learners. In this respect, the “Voice of Turkish Yunus Emre” supplementary reading books, prepared according to levels, help foreign learners acquire the habit of reading in the target language, and learn about Yunus Emre's life and get to know him closely as well; with the activities, it aims to improve the vocabulary, reading, grammar, writing and speaking competencies of the learners. In the study, which was designed in accordance with the qualitative research approach, the research data were obtained by document analysis. In this study, the place of supplementary resources in teaching Turkish to foreigners and the importance of cultural interaction in language teaching were mentioned, and the "Voice of Turkish Yunus Emre" supplementary reading books published by Yunus Emre Institute in 2020 were examined and suggestions were given on how to benefit from supplementary resources in teaching Turkish to foreigners.

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