SOME LINGUISTIC ISSUES IN TURKISH AS FOREIGN LANGUAGE TEXTBOOKS

In this study, the linguistic issues in the Turkish textbooks used at the universities and other institutions of higher education which provide training in Turkish as a Second/Foreign Language especially in the United States of America are determined and solutions are proposed. Four textbooks I would like to thank each and every author of the discussed texts for their efforts and expertise. I particularly appreciate the response and the input of some of the authors, as well as the audience at the AATT Roundtable on Turkish teaching Materials at the annual MESA Meeting in Boston in 2009. used commonly in the training of Turkish as a Second Language are selected and evaluated using the systematic criteria developed by Ansary and Babaii (2009). Some aspects of these criteria which can be valid for Turkish are determined by the author of this article in order to evaluate the textbooks in question and the results are presented for discussion.