Turkophone

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Although in recent years, several studies which have been increasing rapidly have regarded teaching Turkish as a foreign language, poetry has not been used as a teaching tool yet. It is clear that new methods are needed to be developed for teaching Turkish that is spoken and learned almost everywhere in the world. Moreover, it is a necessity that studies must be done by taking modern educational methods into consideration. Otherwise, the development of the language and reaching the place it deserves in the languages ​​of international are not possible . The target audience of the study are the ones that do not know about Turkish and require to learn it. Also it is taken into consideration that using poetry as a teaching language method provides teaching Turkey dialect of Turkish to cognate Turkish communities. Poetries that are used in the application of the novel method are selected from the most appropriate texts for culture and level of the target group. In this study, anyone who wants to learn Turkish and do not know about Turkish is stated as “target audience”. In addition, selected texts are prepared for intermediate and advanced-level audience of the gradual stage system used in teaching language. A master thesis has been proposed that has the same title with this study by the reason of scarcity of methods for teaching Turkish to foreign people before. In the study, it is searched how teaching Turkish by applications prepared using poetries affect success of learning Turkish by the target group; detected how effectively teaching foreign people Turkish by using poetries can be beneficial; proposed an effective method for teaching Turkish to foreign people and bilinguals. This study is an abstract of the thesis mentioned.