THE EXAMINATION OF THE VISUAL-TEXT HARMONY OF ISTANBUL FOR TEACHING TURKISH TO FOREIGNERS

Abstract

The importance of Turkish is increasing day by day with the geographical location of Turkey and the development it has shown in every field. With this importance, an increase is observed in the number of those who want to learn Turkish as a foreign language. Those who want to learn Turkish as a foreign language apply to Turkish Teaching Centers (TÖMER) and learn Turkish with the teaching principles and methods determined. Some books and publications are used during this teaching. One of these publications and books is Istanbul Turkish for Foreigners B1 Textbook. In order to teach Turkish correctly and quickly, these books should be rich in visual content. It is important that the images also evoke the relevant text and enable the student to make inferences about the text. In this study, the importance of Turkish, its development, the reason for the increase in the need to learn Turkish as a foreign language and its consequences are mentioned. Then, the visual-text harmony in the 4th Unit of the Istanbul Turkish for Foreigners Textbook B1 Textbook was examined, and the visual elements and visual order in the text, and the text-visual layout of the Educational Life unit were mentioned. In this study, it was concluded that some images were compatible with the text and the images were smaller than the texts.
Keywords: Teaching Turkish to foreigners, Istanbul textbook, visual-text harmony