A review on the gender category in the middle school Turkihs texsbook

The purpose of the study is to determine terminologically the gender markers in 5th, 6th, 7th and 8th grade Turkish textbooks. In this context, the texts in the Turkish textbooks were examined by the document analysis method by adopting a descriptive approach in the scanning model. The expressions identified in the study were classified in tables under the subheadings of referential, lexical, grammatical and gender categories, and these expressions were exemplified in the context in which they were encountered for the first time. As a result of the examination "15 feminine, 112 masculine in reference gender category; A total of 320 gender expressions were identified as "32 feminine, 38 masculine gender markers in the lexical gender category, 2 feminine, 2 masculine in the grammatical gender category and finally 14 feminine, 100 masculine and 5 socially weak gender markers in the gender category. Except for grammatical gender category it was determined that masculine expressions were more than feminine expressions in general. It is thought that the study is important in terms of determining a framework about the linguistic gender expressions in the texts in the Turkish textbooks, which have an important place in language education. Keywords: Gender, Gender in Turkish, Grammatical Gender, Social Gender, Turkish Textbook.