The Examination of 8th Grade Turkish Course Book in Terms of Four Basic Skills (Reading, Writing, Listening, Speaking) and Activities

Abstract

The main purpose of Turkish education is to improve communication skills of individuals. Four basic languages kills (reading, writing, listening, speaking) are of great importance in the development of this skill. In order to acquire these skills, some acquisition shave been included in the Turkish Course Teaching Program. The purpose of this study is to examine the 8th grade Turkish course book in the 2020-2021 Academic Year in terms of the number of acquisitions required to be gained by students and the distribution of the activities in the units according to the Turkish Language Teaching Program. This research is a qualitative document review. In there search, the 8th grade Turkish course book published by the Ministry of National Education to be used as of the 2020-2021 academic year was examined by contentan alysis. The course book was evaluated according to the learning out comes and number of activities related to the four basic language skills in the program. In all of the 8 units in the course book, a review has been made to determine which language skills are addressed and their numbers. In addition, it was investigated whether the language skills were evenly distributed in the units and whether there was a balanced distribution in terms of the number of activities among the units. As a result of the research, it was determined that the achievements for the four basic language skills did not show a balanced distribution in the units, that there were great differences between the achievements that should be achieved according to the subject contents in the units, and that they showed a balanced distribution in terms of the distribution of the number of activities among the units.