The Study of Yunus Emre Institute I'm Learning Turkish Bookset in Terms of Values Education

Our duty as a society is to protect and improve the values which are created from generatin to generation by the centuries accumulation. It can be understood from the negative events which occur both in Turkey and in the world that values' liveability in the life can't maintain itself. We came such a time from that there were no problems or lack with our values and living them to needed values education time. With its history, being house of thoughts with its cultural accumulation, home to our thoughts, bearer of values, Turkish is substantial in terms of making the values live and transferring them. In the world that is getting smaller with the fast progress of science and technology, Turkey and Turkish have been and will be the center of attraction with its historical, political, economical, cultural capacity. This status gives opportunity to teach Turkish as a foreign language and also transfer the values via the language. The most essential educational materials in the schools are the textbooks. Textbooks are prepared within the framework of lesson's curriculum. In this study, it is examined how much the root values and the values which are in the theme of virtues which were taken place in 2018 Turkish Lesson Curriculum are in the set of I'm learning Turkish which aims to teach Turkish as a foreign language that was prepared by Yunus Emre Institute for 10-15 aged learners. The set I'm learning Turkish prepared by Yunus Emre Institute consists of four textbooks and four workbooks. Textbooks and workbooks which were prepared for each level have 6 units. In the study, results are given by means of values that are transferred at each level and distribution of value transfer by each unit. The data obtained by document review method were transformed into the charts interpreted in case of numerical data and inferences were made. As a result of the study, it was found that A2.2 is the most value transfusion textbook. Self-regulation and responsibility are the most transferred values in the set.