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Books come first among the materials used in teaching Turkish as a foreign language. One of the types of books prepared for the target audience is self-learning Turkish books. While the mother tongue of the learners is taken as a criterion in the creation of these books, there are also books published for various occupational groups in order to gain the targeted skills. One of the books that can be included in this group is “Turkish: A Guide to the Spoken Language”, published in 1943, which was written to teach Turkish to American soldiers. With this book prepared by the US War Department, it is aimed to teach Turkish to its own army personnel. In this article, this book prepared for American soldiers is examined in terms of language teaching and some results are presented. The analyzed book is evaluated in terms of language teaching methods, language skills, grammar teaching, exercises, cultural transfer, visuals, purpose and target audience. In this study, by adopting a qualitative research approach, the data were collected through document analysis and the themes were determined by examining the obtained data with the content analysis technique. In the findings of the research in this book, which was written with the Audio-lingual method, it was determined that the pronunciation exercises for the development of speaking skills were focused on in accordance with the purpose, the vocabulary teaching was transferred in Turkish-English comparatively, and the word list planned to be taught was tried to be selected for the target audience.

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