The analysing of visuals in secondary school Turkish textbooks according to students' and teachers' opinion in view of text-visual harmony

Turkish courses are taught text oriented and the visuals which are used in picturizing the texts are important as well as the text content.Because those visuals create prior knowledge and provide the texts to be understood better. The visuals are quite important to direct students to read the text as well.Turkish learning outcomes ''interprets the text via visuals.'', ''guess the topic of text via visuals and title.'', ''interprets and evaluates the information,events,thoughts which are peresented with visuals.'' makes the visuals inseperable parts for texts.From this point of view, the purpose of this study is to reveal the sufficency of visuals in Turkish coursebooks at reflecting the content of the text.In the study , the text-visual harmony of compulsory themes in the 5,6,7,8 th gradeTurkish coursebooks which are published in 2018 is analyzed. In this study the document research is done and the study is a qualitative study.The study consists of two parts. In the first part,the texts in the compulsory themes were analyzed by 10 students at every grades in wiew of text-visual harmony. In the second part, 10 Turkish language teacher who work in Van city analyzed the texts in compulsory themes in view of text-visual harmony. Based on teacher and student opinions, it was determined that the visuals used in the reading texts in the compulsory themes in the four Turkish textbooks were insufficient to reflect the content of the texts.It has been determined that the majority of the visuals are not sufficient to create preliminary information about the subject of the text, convey their main idea/sense, and arouse students' aesthetic sensitivity and desire to read the texts. Keywords: Turkish coursebook ,visual,text,text-visual harmony