Elementary Turkish Complete Course For Beginners

Elementary Turkish
Elementary Turkish is a beginning level course for learnes of Turkish. The variety of Turkish presented in this textbook corresponds to standard Turkish, the official language of the Republic of Turkey and the language spoken by educated Turkish speakers. Elementary Turkish is designed to provide beginning students with sufficient Turkish to meet most of their everyday needs. Once students finish the textbook, they should be able to speak, understand, read and write Turkish at the level of mid-intermediate. This textbook can be used in a classroom setting or as a self-study aid. The book is based on an eclectic method that incorporates different aspects of various language teaching methodologies.
Features
It has a multi-skills syllabus
It is cyclical: matereals presented in one unit recur in the same or expanded from, in the subsequent unit(s).
It is frequency based: materials chosen are comprised of high-frequency words, idioms, expressions, and grammatical structures.
The language used is not artificial, but natural, avoiding contrived expressions.
Grammar is graded, moving from simple to more complex elements. The grammar sections are expanded to facilitate the learners needs.
Units are based on conversations. Materials in each unit are desingned to complement and elaborate on these conversations.
Functional and communicative features are given priority.
Culture is treated as an integral part of the language and the language-learning process.
The book contains over 500 exercises. At the end of the book, there is an Answer Key to Exercises to learners who are studying Turkish on their own.
Audio materials (in two CDs) contain the alphabet, all of the conversations and the listening sections.
There are six reviews units, one after every four units.
An English translation is provided for each conversation and sample sentence for learners who do not have the benefit of having an instructor or a tutor.
A cumulative Turkish-English glossary contains about 1,200 most-frequently-used words.
A reverse English-Turkish glossary is provided for convenience.
(Arka Kapak)