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The aim of the study was to determine the character development methods used in literary texts in secondary school Turkish textbooks. For this purpose, the document review method was used, and the study group consisted of literary texts in Turkish textbooks prepared for 5th, 6th, 7th, and 8th grades of the secondary school and accepted by the Turkish Ministry of National Education, Head Council of Education and Morality as the education tool. The reason for the selection of literary texts is that they create a fictional world as a type of text and this fictional world allows the development of different characters. In this context, 50 literary texts in Turkish textbooks were examined in terms of character development methods. In the study, a checklist containing character development methods was used as a data collection tool. The character development methods in the mentioned checklist are the character development methods expressed by Lukens, and the literary texts in Turkish textbooks were examined by the researcher using this checklist and the texts were analyzed by the content analysis method. As a result of the study, it was found that the most common character development method in literary texts in Turkish textbooks for all grade levels was to make characters speak, and the physical characteristics were least used in the development of characters.

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