Analyzing the vocabulary in the "Aslı" story series within the framework of the "European common reference text for languages"

Throughout history, societies have interacted with each other willingly or unwillingly. As a result of this interaction, societies have exchanged culture and civilization with each other. The culture and civilization formed as a result of interaction has been transmitted to the next generations through language. There may be different reasons behind a society's efforts to learn and teach its language and culture. War and migration are perhaps the most prominent factors among these reasons. Nations have fought wars for various reasons and these wars have led to the emergence of social migrations. The recent Syrian civil war can be given as an example. As a result of the civil war, thousands of Syrian refugees have been forced to seek asylum in various countries, especially Turkey, since 2010. Although Turkey was caught unprepared for this unexpected large migration movement, it has started to carry out many activities in the field to ensure social integration. The PİKTES project was developed with the support of the EU as a solution to the language problem of refugees, whose shelter and basic living needs were met in the first place. Within the scope of the project, Turkish language teaching services were provided to Syrian children within the formal education system, and various electronic and printed materials were prepared within the MoNE in order to realize language teaching at the desired level. One of these materials is the "Aslı" story series prepared for children aged 6-12 at A1-A2 level. The "Aslı" story series has been prepared according to the logic of a series in order to create integrity. In this respect, the stories are linked to the previous and subsequent texts and complement each other. At the end of each text, various activities addressing pre-reading, reading order and post-reading are also included. Thus, it is tried to ensure that the learners interact with the book and participate in the language learning process effectively. The aim of this study is to reveal the word frequency and vocabulary of the "Aslı" story series, to examine it within the framework of D-AOBM, and to put forward an idea about the series by comparing it with similar studies conducted in the field. In this context, the "Aslı" story series was provided electronically on the official PİKTES website of the Ministry of National Education and the word frequency and vocabulary elements were collected using the document analysis technique, one of the data collection techniques of the qualitative research method, which is assumed to be appropriate for the purpose of the research. The tables of idioms, proverbs, proverbs, doubling, stereotypes and word frequency, which constitute the elements of vocabulary, were prepared with the help of CİBAKAYA 2.1 application. As a result of the tables, it was determined that proverbs were not used in the texts and doublings were used less. In general terms, it was seen that the story series was prepared to support the four basic language skills, especially reading skills, and that it was in parallel with similar studies conducted in the field and supported the language references in D-AOBM.