An assesment of topic main idea summarization teaching in education of comprehension in the framework of curriculum textbook and teacher's' views

The main purpose of this study is to determine the suitability of topic, main idea and summarizing activities to sub-process steps within the scope of listening/reading skills in Turkish textbooks. In this context, the situation of the topic, main idea and summarization objectives for listening/watching and reading skills in the Turkish Language Curriculum (2019) was examined. In line with these objectives, the suitability of the topic, main idea and summarizing activities in the Turkish textbooks to the cognitive connections with each other and the existence of any instruction/activity related to the sub-process steps of the topic, main idea and summarization skills in the books were tested. The sample of this study consisted of the Turkish Curriculum and 14 Turkish textbooks used as teaching materials of grade levels of 1-8th. The data obtained from the objectives in the Curriculum and activity in textbooks were obtained by document analysis and were analyzed by descriptive analysis.As the study group, 15 primary school teachers and 15 Turkish teachers working in primary and secondary schools in Ankara province were determined. The answers given by the teachers to the questions were analyzed by content analysis. According to the results of the data obtained within the scope of the study, it has been determined that cognitive processing sequences are ignored while listing the objectives in the Curriculum, the activities in the Turkish textbooks were not prepared according to the sub-process steps and the teachers lack knowledge of these skills.