Cultural Transfer In Mahmud Al Kashgari Turkish Teaching Set Prepared For Teaching Turkish To Arabs

Language is a communication tool in its simplest definition. Culture can be defined as everything that has become the symbol and national value of a nation. Relationship between language and culture has been known since their existence. Language feeds culture while the culture feeds the language. There is a connection in between a language and a culture in this manner. This relationship should be paid attention in all mentioned areas about the language and culture. Relationship between language and culture should be on the screen at every stage of language teaching as it is one of these areas. As language teaching is to mean cultural transmission at the same time. For this reason, it is focused on importance of culture transmission in language teaching in the Common Framework Text for Education of European Languages. In this study, first it is focused on the position and importance of prepared textbooks in the process of culture transferring through teaching Turkish, accepting the idea “language teaching is a tool in intercultural interaction”. Later, Mahmud Al Kashgari Turkish Teaching Set which was prepared for teaching Turkish to Arabs was discussed in the context of cultural transmission and evaluated according to certain criteria. As a result of these analyzes, it is come out that the transfer was done more in the texts of the main level than in the mid-range ones, and also the transforming were often found to be direct. It was observed that there were more literary and historical texts in the mid-level transmissions. According to these results it is thought that there should be given more feature related items of Turkish life and traditions.

Keywords

Teaching Turkish to foreigners, Teaching Turkish to Arabs, Mahmud Al Kashgari Turkish Teaching Set,