Adaptation Of Adapted Texts in Textbooks Used in Teaching Turkish As A Foreign Language: New Hitit Example

It is known that literary texts used to improve reading skills in teaching Turkish as a foreign language are included in textbooks. While advanced learners can easily grasp the original literary texts, the beginning and middle level learners have difficulty understanding these texts because they do not have enough linguistic skills. Therefore, in order to ensure that these literary texts are properly included in textbooks, they must be adapted to the level within the framework of certain methods and criteria. The aim of the study is to examine the adapted texts that are used in textbooks prepared for teaching Turkish as a foreign language in terms of their compliance with the text adaptation criteria. The study is based on document review from qualitative research methods. Prior to the examination, Turkish textbook for foreigners the adapted texts in the New Hitit Turkish Teaching Kit B1 textbook were determined, the original sources of the adapted texts were reached and a text evaluation tool containing the text adaptation criteria was prepared. New Hitit Turkish Teaching Kit A1-A2 for foreigners and New Hitit Turkish Teaching Kit B1 for foreigners are based on grammar in the textbook for the adaptation process in the text evaluation tool. At the end of the review, the frequency and percentage values of the transactions are calculated and the rates of the transactions in the adapted texts are presented. When we look at the proportion of the text adaptation operations on the adapted texts in the new Hitit 2 book, it is concluded that the most lexical simplification was done. Syntactic simplification and expansion operations were found to be almost identical.

Keywords

Teaching Turkish, Teaching Turkish As A Foreign Language, Reading Skill, Adaptation Criteria, Textbook.