Examination of vocabulary elements in journey to Turkishbook A1 and A2 in teaching Turkish language to foreigners

In today's world where knowledge is renewed in rapid phase, it now becomes highly common that the communities and individuals get access to, use and produce information. In the process of Turkey's international expansion, teaching Turkish to foreigners in the frame of "Adult Students Project" has developed recently and become a project not only for Turks and relative communities but also for world nations. Teaching Turkish as a foreign language does not only refer to teaching the language but rather to the expansion of Turkish culture and its values system. In this context, it is deemed necessary to conduct studies on what methods to follow in teaching Turkish as a second language and how to better the success of the process which form grounds for development and increase of these. Three main levels of proficiency, namely A (basic), B (middle) and C (upper), have been determined in the teaching of Turkish as a foreign language, as classified in the Common European Framework of Reference. Various materials related to teaching Turkish as a foreign language based on the qualifications of these levels are available in the literature. Examples of these materials are textbooks, workbooks, Z books and other technological materials. In this study, Journey to Turkish A1 and A2 level study and work books used in teaching of Turkish as a foreign language have been reviewed in accordance with the nature of the qualitative research method and the study is of a theoretical nature. The study aims to identify the elements of vocabulary, proverbs, idioms, dilemmas, communication expressions, private names and exclamations, and to reveal the distribution of vocabulary and word frequency. In the study, the frequency of words is turned into data by the Cibakaya 2.0 directory program. Also, the relationship between the language and culture was examined and the effect of the vocabulary on the culture transfer was revealed.