Özet:

The aim of the study is to determine the cultural elements included in the secondary school Turkish textbooks and the level of their coverage. The study is in a descriptive research design. Document review for data collection; Content analysis was used for data analysis. In the study, the national cultural elements in the reading, listening and watching texts in the 2018-2019 MEB secondary school Turkish textbooks were discussed. During the data collection phase, the texts were scanned and the words belonging to cultural elements were listed. These elements listed in the data analysis were classified and the level of inclusion of these items according to the class levels were specified with frequency and percentage. As a result of the research, mostly "Idioms"; It has been determined that there are at least "Proverbs, children's games and toys". Similar results were encountered on the basis of class. In the discussion and conclusion part, the findings are summarized and its relationship with the Turkish culture and history of civilization course is revealed. It is thought that in the selection and creation of the texts in the textbooks, it will be beneficial to include the elements belonging to different cultural elements in a balanced way as much as possible and to pay attention to diversity in these elements in order to ensure diversity in cultural transfer.

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