Turkey 8. Sınıf Curriculum - Turkish Language

This curriculum focuses on developing comprehensive language skills, including listening, speaking, reading, and writing, preparing students for effective communication and critical thinking. The curriculum was updated in 2024, building upon the previous 2019 version. It emphasizes a spiral approach to learning, reinforcing previously acquired skills and introducing new concepts progressively. The curriculum aims to equip students with lifelong language skills and foster their appreciation for Turkish language and culture.

Listening/Watching

Students are expected to actively engage with auditory and visual content, demonstrating comprehension and critical analysis skills. They should be able to answer questions related to the content, identify the main topic and idea, and assess the coherence of the presented information. Additionally, students learn to identify thought development methods used in presentations, such as exemplification, providing witness accounts, and using statistical data. They also learn to interpret nonverbal cues from speakers.

Speaking

The curriculum emphasizes both prepared and impromptu speaking skills. Students are encouraged to present their thoughts logically, using supporting materials like visuals and audio aids. They are also guided to present research findings in various settings like symposiums, panels, and forums. Furthermore, students practice different speaking strategies, including creative, guided, empathetic, argumentative, persuasive, and critical speaking techniques.

Reading

Reading comprehension and critical analysis are central to the curriculum. Students are encouraged to utilize various reading strategies, such as skimming, summarizing, note-taking, discussing, and critical reading. They learn to identify and analyze narrative flaws, summarize texts, answer and formulate questions related to the content, and determine the main idea and supporting details. The curriculum also focuses on interpreting the author's perspective, distinguishing between subjective and objective approaches, and comparing different versions of the same text. Students learn to differentiate between factual and fictional elements, distinguish between various text types like paragraphs, articles, essays, novels, and epics, and analyze media texts for their purpose, such as cultural transmission, event interpretation, information dissemination, entertainment, and persuasion. Effective use and evaluation of information sources, including assessing the reliability of online information, are also emphasized. Students are taught to interpret information presented in graphs, tables, and charts, and compare literary works with their media adaptations. Finally, understanding procedural steps in texts, such as user manuals, is also covered.

Writing

The curriculum encourages creative and informative writing. Students practice writing poems, informative texts with clear introductions, developments, and conclusions, and narrative texts with well-defined settings, characters, and plot structures. They are guided to use thought development methods, provide evidence to support their views, and draw examples from daily life. They also learn to use writing guides, apply different writing styles, fill out forms correctly, use appropriate transition words and phrases, and edit their writing for grammatical errors, spelling, and punctuation. The curriculum also touches upon sentence types and the impact of verb tenses on meaning.