A Meta-Synthesis Research of Articles on Turkish as a Foreign Language Teaching Sets

Abstract

This study aimed to analyze the articles examining five teaching sets commonly used in teaching Turkish as a foreign language from different perspectives by using meta-synthesis method and to reveal the research tendency in the field. For this purpose, 136 articles published in different journals in the ULAKBIM TR index, Dergi Park, ASOS, and Google Scholar databases were accessed by searching the identified keywords. The articles have been analyzed in terms of the publication year, subject area, index, method, name of the teaching set examined in the article, book type, level/grade, sample group, and data collection tool if exists. As a result of the analysis, three main themes were formed: articles analyzing teaching sets, articles taking opinions about teaching sets, and articles analyzing teaching sets and taking opinions about these sets. Under these themes, the subject areas of the articles, the teachings set, the levels, and the grades were analyzed in detail. It was realized that the number of articles that took opinions about the teaching sets and the number of articles that both analyzed and took opinions about the teaching sets was limited. According to the results of the research, it was detected that the document analysis method was mostly used in the articles, the textbooks included in the teaching sets were mostly included in the article samples, and the teaching sets were mostly analyzed in terms of culture transfer/cultural elements and vocabulary. It was also concluded that in articles examining a single teaching set, basic and intermediate level text and workbooks were included more in the article samples, but in articles examining more than one teaching set, there was a gradual decrease from basic level to advanced level.