Examination of 6-9 age group cartoon movies on TRT Children's channel in terms of vocabulary

Vocabulary elements show the conceptual world of a society and reflect the culture of that society.Vocabulary elements, which have an important role in children's language development, can also be conveyed through cartoons that children watch for a few hours on television.In this research, it is aimed to determine the vocabulary elements of the cartoons that appeal to the 6-9 age group and broadcast on the TRT Children's channel. The first three episodes of three cartoons broadcast on TRT Child channel, appealing to the age group of 6-9, constitute the objects of study of this research, in which the scanning model was used.The cartoons were chosen with an easily accessible method.Data were collected by document review.The cartoons were handled and examined with the dictation method, and foreign words, idioms, proverbs, reduplications, stereotypes, terms, stereotypes and slang expressions in their contents were determined as data.The official video sharing site of TRT Children's channel was preferred in the analysis of cartoons.Content analysis was used in the analysis of the data. The data obtained from the research were expressed as the frequency value according to the parts of the cartoons. Then the data are presented in tables. As a result, it was determined that while 502 foreign words were included in the analyzed cartoons, 1 proverb was included, no stereotyped expressions were included, and 22 reduplications were used. In addition, it was concluded that 54 idioms, 35 terms, 71 phrases (relationships) were included, and slang expressions were never used.