SELECTION OF POEMS AS LITERARY TEXT IN LANGUAGE TEACHING WRITING SKILLS
DİL ÖĞRETİMİNDE EDEBÎ METİN OLARAK ŞİİR SEÇİMİ

Author : Arzu ÇEVİK
Number of pages : 141-151

Abstract

Text is the main tool in the process of language teaching. Various types and structural texts are needed to develop and language skills. The studies are performed on the texts by selecting texts appropriate to objectives, themes and grade level prepared in the textbooks used in the process of Turkish teaching in middle schools. The principle of being appropriate to children should be taken basis for the texts used for the children and the terms of children literature should be preferred as much as possible. With this purpose, 7 Turkish textbooks prepared by the Ministry of National Education (MoNE) and private publishing house and approved by MoNE for the 4th grade and the 8th grade were evaluated in terms of selection of poetry from among the text types. Considering the age group, the texts in Turkish textbooks for secondary school children in childhood and early adolescence periods should match with the characteristics of the mentioned population, and qualified literature texts should be selected for children and young people. In the prepared Turkish textbooks, the examples of selected poems based on this purpose were examined. It has been determined that most of the selected poems are original texts and that a large part of them are examples of classical Turkish poetry. Selected poems were seen to be used more thematically in the themes of Atatürk and Love and Emotion. Another noteworthy feature of poems is that they are poems bearing cultural and national values, and that children are often included in works that are overcome with homeland, flag, history and national love. It has been determined that there are repetitive poems in the books. Each literary text was a message and it was considered to be a value, and it was also examined in terms of values and transfer in poems. In order to have texts for children, it is necessary to reach more child poems.

Keywords

Children literature, language teaching, text, text selection, textbook, poem.

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