Analysis of the Yağmur Coursebooks Used in Teaching Turkish as a Foreign Language in terms of Word Frequency and the Context of Common European Language Reference

Learning the language, which is one of the most central assets of humanity, is a considerably tough and arduous process. With the increase in the interaction among countries due to globalization, language learning activities have also gained pace. There are several academic works on methodology in learning Turkish as a foreign language, and one of those is word frequency research. Word frequency studies identify frequently used words in a language. In the study titled "Analysis of the Yağmur Coursebooks Used in Teaching Turkish as a Foreign Language in terms of Vocabulary Frequency and the Context of Common European Language Reference ", the subject of teaching Turkish to foreigners has been discussed, and a document review study has been conducted on teaching Turkish as a foreign language. Word frequency study has been conducted by taking the first and second coursebooks of the Yağmur Turkish Teaching Set, published by Nev Lisan Publishing in 2017, as a reference to cover the A1 and A2 levels. Cibakaya program version 2.3, a frequency software developed for Turkish language by Ceval Kaya, has been used in this study. Considering the findings, the words are grouped under nine categories i.e., noun, verb, adjective, gerund, conjunction, adverb, pronoun, preposition, and interjection/fixed expression, and the word frequencies are separately presented. In this context, it has been concluded that teaching the nouns of concrete objects from the immediate environment, especially at the A1 level, is highly important. It is understood that the teaching of other word types starts right after the teaching the nouns of objects.