Speaking education applications in primary school Turkish language course books

In our country, there may occasionally be disagreements among people in verbal communication. For this reason, there is speaking education in Turkish Lessons in primary schools and it is aimed to be acquired the behavior of speaking well. Nevertheless, the insufficiencies of speaking type, method, and technique in use and inadequacies in practice do not support to solve this issue. In order to prevent students' speaking randomly, and to choose the correct speaking type, method and technique in correct time, it is necessary that students must be educated. For this issue, the most suitable atmosphere is Turkish lessons and the most suitable material is course books. The more speaking types take place in Turkish lessons and Turkish course book, the more chance is granted to adapt the activities in Turkish lessons into the daily life. In this study, the texts in sixth, seventh, and ninth grades' students' and teachers' books, which are prepared and issued by Ministry of Education, have been examined according to qualitative research methods and the distribution of speaking types according to the texts has been shown in charts. Furthermore, these books have been compared separately among each other and speaking types being used have been shown in a general chart and the findings which have been acquired by the method of document examination have been interpreted. The speaking types found in the process of studying course books have been found partly sufficient. Keywords: Turkish Course Book, Speaking, Speaking Types