In chemistry education Turkish provebs' effects

Language is considered to be an exclusively human mode of communication. In the philosophy of language, a natural language is a language that is spoken, signed, or written by humans for general-purpose communication. . Proverbs are very important part of every spoken language and folk literature originating in oral tradition.Science education at different levels has tended to be viewed mainly as a practical subject, and the importance of natural language and literacy have been neglected. Learning the language of science is a most important part of science education. Natural language is a major part of scientific language.Informal science education techniques can be used to provide a relaxed environment at various points in science classrooms. These kinds of techniques offer a good oppurtunity to introduce or clarify some concepts. Analogies, proverbs, stories, games are some of them.Giving more attention to language in science classrooms is one of the most important efforts in improving the quality of science education.Teaching chemistry is like teaching a foreign language . In chemistry education , It is used at least three languages: ordinary Turkish, chemical equations and mathematical equations.The purpose of this study is to analyse chemistry knowledge in some common Turkish proverbs. For this reason ,some proverbs dictionaries have been scanned and some proverbs related with chemistry were chosen to analyse for scientifical point of view. The chemistry knowledge in these proverbs have been discussed in detail. In the second step of the study, It have been searched the opinions of the chemistry education deparment students abaut chemical knowlwdge in these proverbs .Data collected consequence of the study were evaluated with basic statistical techniques. Depending on the results, It is possible to say tahat some students have not necessary information about natural language and chemical knowledge at this level.