Abstract
<p>Literary texts have an important function in the education of Turkish and literature. It is certain that literary texts will steer the development of individuals in either lingual or emotion and value education. As for poetic texts involved in literary texts, they have a great role in increasing the aesthetic and artistic skills of their addressees, improving their vocabulary, making them aware of all the possibilities of the language, and increasing their perception of national and moral values. Due to all of these reasons, the poetic texts selected to be used in the Turkish textbooks are to meet some specific criteria. During the course of this study, the poetic texts in the Turkish textbooks recommended to be used in 2020-2021 school year favouring the principles of "harmony," "imaginary characteristics," "literary autonomy," and "suitability for children" constituting text characteristics have been evaluated by the experts in the literature, and some results have been achieved. It has been concluded that 20 of the 66 poetic texts analysed for this study are "good," 34 are "average," and 12 are "weak." In other words, 30% of the 66 poetic texts are "good," 51% are "average," and 19% are "weak." Based on these results, required sensitivity has not been shown to the poetic texts selected for textbooks. Considering the fact that secondary school students improve their language skills encountering quality texts, the poetic texts proposed to be used in the 5th, 6th, 7th, and 8th grades have been stated at the end of the study. </p><p> </p><p><strong> Article visualizations:</strong></p><p><img src="/-counters-/edu_01/0960/a.php" alt="Hit counter" /></p>
Highlights
The quality of Turkish textbooks is very important since they enable students to effectively acquire the basic language skills, and grammar that can be added to these skills
It is an important stage for Turkish education to utilise poetic texts in teaching listening, reading, writing, speaking, which makes up the four basic language skills, and in addition to these skills, grammar
9.1 Analysis of the Poetic Texts in Accordance with the Determined Criteria Sixty six poetic texts in total in Turkish textbooks have been analysed by four literature experts in accordance with the factors of harmony, imaginary characteristics, literary autonomy, suitability for children as "weak(1)," "average(2)," and "good(3)," and analysis averages have been demonstrated in the last column of the tables as poetry level
Summary
The quality of Turkish textbooks is very important since they enable students to effectively acquire the basic language skills (reading, writing, speaking, listening), and grammar that can be added to these skills. Turkish textbooks are one of the most important foundations for language teaching Within this context, there must be a harmony from classroom environment to teacher, from syllabus to objectives, from teaching models to materials and textbooks to be used in the lessons. "Teaching Turkish is carried out through texts that have an important role in creating and improving the reading culture of an individual In this sense, the quality of textbooks in which the selected texts take part becomes even more important” (İşeri, 2007: 61). In order to prevent the house from being demolished, its foundation, i.e. well-qualified poetic texts, is required to be strong These qualities can be summarised as having high literary value, being strengthened with national and moral elements, enabling students to acquire aesthetic and artistic skills, being able to introduce Turkic and world culture to the students, enabling students to acquire reading skills
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