Abstract
VALUATION OF CONCRETE AND ABSTRACT CULTURAL HERITAGE TAKES PLACE IN THE BOOK YEDİ İKLİM TÜRKÇE VE İSTANBUL
Culture is the most important element that makes sence in the society. Culture is the product of tangible and intangible cultural accumulation. On the other side, language is important since it reflects the features of the society and have roles for conveying the culture throughout the ages.
Turkish language is special in this context. In the formation of the words, idioms and proverbs- a reflection of culture can be traced. Training of a language cannot be seperated from the cultural elements. Cultural training is inevitably important In language learning. Language cannot be learned just by getting the information about the grammer, but also understanding the cultural codes of that language. Within this concept, we will trace the codes concerns with the cultural heritage and define how these codes take part in the coursebooks named “Istanbul and Yedi Iklim Türkçe”. The A1, A2, B1, B2, C1/+ and C2 levels of these course books will be examined. These coursebooks reference the language learning from the beginner to advanced level. Conveying the cultural elements to the language learners is increasing step by step towards the advance levels.
These two coursebooks that aims to teach Turkish differentiates from the point of view of conveying the culture and language teaching approach; the definition of tangible and intangible cultural heritage in these coursebooks are the main goal of this study.
Keywords
Teaching Turkish to foreigners, tangible culture, intangible cultural haritage, Yedi İklim Türkçe,
