TEXT CONTENT ANALYSİS FOR LİSTENİNG İN ANATOLİAN COURSES, USED AT LEVELS A1 AND A2 İN TEACHİNG TURKİSH AS A FOREİGN LANGUAGE.

Abstract

Recordings (CD, tape recorder, mp3), listening texts and other related consolidation activities are utilised in first or foreign language course textbooks whose aim is to improve listening skills and so is benefiting from the available listening skills capacity. It is of utmost importance that these resources should be of high quality and developed thoroughly in order that an effective and persistent language acquisition process takes place. In this work, recordings and listening texts used in Anadolu Turkish as a foreign language A1 and A2 levelcoursebook 1 and 2 were analysed. The text analysis, a qualitative research methodology, was implemented in the research. During the course of the research, 35 recordings accompanying a total of 299 listening activities were analysed in accord with the criteria set out for A1 and A2 levels in Common European Framework of Reference for Languages. It was identified throughout this research that listening texts and recordings used in the coursebooks are in considerable alignment with the aforementioned criteria. It was concluded as the result of the research that, once the issues raised are responded to, the analysed coursebooks shall contribute to the teaching of Turkish as a foreign language more efficiently.