Conjunctions usage and encountered problems in Turkish teaching to foreigners

Language, a feature that distinguishes humans from the other creatures, is an oral or written tool that provides agreement among humans. Whether it is a mother or foreign language education, the aim is to provide the students with four basic language skills. In addition to these skills, language educatıon should follow the rules of grammar. The systematic of the foreign language that the individual learns with the systematic of other tongue may not match. Each language has its own systematic and syntax. The individual can use more or less the systematic of their mother tongue without a formal education. However, it is more difficult to learn the language rules in teaching a foreign language and there may be more difficulties in teaching. In a foreign language, teaching language rules should be given in accordance with the levels and there should be a teaching unity in textbooks. In the textbooks which are used in a foreign language teaching, grammar subjects should be paralel between the levels. This study was conducted to reveal the use of conjunctions taught in textbooks which were used in teaching Turkish as a foreign language in the written texts of students and the problems encountered in these uses. The study was carried out on conjunctions taught at the levels of A1, A2, B1, B2, C1 of the Yunus Emre Institute Turkish Education Set (Yedi İklim) and the University of Gazi Turkish Set for Foreigners. In the academic year of 2017-2018, a total of 100 students were printed at the level of A1, A2, B1, B2, C1 at University of İnönü and University of Fırat TÖMER. The conjunctions that are taught in the books and used in students' texts were determined and compared. This study was carried out by using the document review method, which is one of the qualitative research methods. In the Turkish teaching sets examined in the study, the compatibility of the conjunctions given according to the levels was also tried to be revealed. Key Words: Conjunctions, Textbooks, Teaching Turkish to foreigners