Hacettepe Üniversitesi Yabancı Dil Olarak Türkçe Araştırmaları Dergisi

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The use of authentic texts plays an important role in teaching Turkish as a foreign language since the structural and content diversity of authentic texts can be used in direct proportion to the level of language learners in the target language. As authentic texts require a certain level of knowledge in teaching a language, they may not be understood, if they are not used level-oriented. Thus, authentic texts such as epics, folk tales and fairy tales are preferred at the B1 level. Moreover, since these texts contain the cultural structure of the target language, they are preferred in vocabulary teaching when the aim is to teach vocabulary in a cultural context.
This paper focuses on the vocabulary and the teaching of doubling in it. In this context, we chose the fairy tale named “Alicengiz Oyunu” in “Billur Köşk Masalları”, as it is the earliest fairy tale compilation example in Anatolia. Other factors underlining our preference for this fairy tale is that it is directly related to Turkish culture in terms of its name and content, and it contains many phrases, doubling and stereotypes. The text was adapted to the B1 level and a glossary was prepared. The adaptation process took into consideration the achievements related to the B1 level as described in the Common European Framework of Reference.
As language and culture are intertwined and fairy tales enable such a transfer, especially in vocabulary teaching, due to both their content and structural constructions, their use as course materials could produce many gains in this context. Finally, this paper depicted that the use of fairy tales and authentic texts containing cultural elements in language teaching are important in vocabulary and collocation teaching.