Turkey 8th Grade Curriculum - Turkish Language (Türkçe)

This outlines the Turkish Language curriculum for 8th grade students in Turkey, based on the Ministry of National Education (MEB) official curriculum document. The curriculum focuses on four key language skills: listening/viewing, speaking, reading, and writing.

Listening/Viewing (Dinleme/İzleme)

• Answering Questions: Students will be able to answer questions related to listened/viewed content.
• Identifying Topic: Students will identify the main topic of listened/viewed content.
• Identifying Main Idea/Feeling: Students will determine the central idea or primary emotion conveyed in listened/viewed content.
• Visualization: Students will visualize and recreate narrative texts they have listened to/viewed.
• Evaluating Consistency: Students will critically evaluate the consistency and coherence of listened/viewed content.
• Identifying Thought Development Methods: Students will identify the methods used to develop thoughts and ideas in listened/viewed content, such as exemplification, providing evidence, and using numerical data.
• Understanding Nonverbal Cues: Students will interpret nonverbal cues from speakers.

Speaking (Konuşma)

• Prepared Speeches: Students will deliver prepared speeches, utilizing supporting materials like visuals and audio aids. They will be encouraged to present research findings in settings like symposiums, panels, and forums.
• Impromptu Speeches: Students will practice impromptu speaking.
• Speech Strategies: Students will apply various speech strategies, including creative, guided, empathetic, argumentative, persuasive, and critical approaches.

Reading (Okuma)

• Reading Strategies: Students will utilize reading strategies like skimming, summarizing, note-taking, discussing, and critical reading.
• Vocabulary: Students will expand their vocabulary and understand the meaning of words and phrases within the context.
• Identifying Narrative Flaws: Students will identify narrative inconsistencies and flaws, focusing on grammatical errors.
• Summarization: Students will summarize the content of texts.
• Answering Questions: Students will answer questions related to the text, establishing connections between explicit and implicit meanings.
• Asking Questions: Students will formulate questions about the text.
• Identifying Topic: Students will identify the main topic of the text.
• Identifying Main Idea/Feeling: Students will determine the central idea or primary emotion conveyed in the text.
• Identifying Supporting Ideas: Students will identify supporting details and ideas within the text.
• Interpretation: Students will interpret the content of the text, considering the author's perspective, subjective and objective approaches, and examples/details provided.
• Problem Solving: Students will generate different solutions to problems presented in the text.
• Comparison: Students will compare different versions of the same text (e.g., translations, different editions).
• Distinguishing Fact from Fiction: Students will differentiate between factual and fictional elements in texts.
• Genre Differentiation: Students will distinguish between different text genres, focusing on paragraphs, articles, essays, novels, and epics.
• Media Analysis: Students will analyze media texts, identifying their purposes (e.g., cultural transmission, commentary, information, entertainment, persuasion).
• Information Sources: Students will effectively use information sources and evaluate their reliability, particularly online sources like blogs and personal websites. They will be guided to prioritize academic and governmental websites (.edu and .gov).
• Interpreting Visual Data: Students will interpret information presented in graphs, tables, and charts.
• Comparing Media: Students will compare written literary works with their media adaptations, considering characters, setting, time, and events.
• Understanding Processes: Students will understand and explain processes and steps outlined in texts, such as user manuals.

Writing (Yazma)

• Poetry: Students will write poetry.
• Informative Texts: Students will write informative texts, structuring them with introduction, development, and conclusion sections, using thought development methods, supporting their views with evidence, and drawing conclusions.
• Narrative Texts: Students will write narrative texts, designing realistic or imaginative elements based on the genre and topic, creating a consistent time and space framework, and including exposition, rising action, and resolution.
• Process Writing: Students will write about processes, following a step-by-step approach.
• Figurative Language: Students will use figurative language in their writing.
• Forms: Students will fill out forms correctly according to instructions.
• Transition Words: Students will use appropriate transition and connecting words in their writing.
• Revision: Students will revise their writing, focusing on grammatical errors, spelling, and punctuation.
• Sentence Types: Students will recognize different sentence types.
• Voice of Verbs: Students will understand the impact of verb voice on meaning.