Elementary Turkish by Kurtuluş Öztopçu
Complete Course for Beginners
Softcover, 752 pages
ISBN: 975-7981-34-6
Printed by Kitap Matbaası, İstanbul, Turkey, 2006

“Elementary Turkish is a comprehensive academic text for students who are serious about learning Turkish”

Long awaited by students and teachers of Turkish, this textbook 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 intermediate-mid specified in AATT’s (American Association of Teachers of Turkic Languages) Provisional Proficiency Guidelines for Turkish.

Reviews

“We have searched 10 years for a high-quality Turkish language textbook. Dr. Oztopcu’s Elementary Turkish is a comprehensive academic text for students who are serious about learning Turkish. The staff and students at the Beverly Hills Lingual Institute are very grateful for this much-needed addition to the Turkish language learning process. The text is excellent; we have found nothing else remotely comparable.”

Karin Fallon, PhD. Director, Beverly Hills Lingual Institute

 

This textbook is the only elementary text of its kind. As a student I found it invaluable because the grammar explanations are detailed, clear and well-supported by numerous examples based on everyday speech. The dialogues are contemporary and the additional vocabulary is expansive. Each unit contains numerous exercises and a comprehensive answer key is included for all the exercises. There are two CDs for listening and practice vocalization based on native Turkish speakers.

Mary Riedel, student

 

Although the Turkish language is taught at many of the major universities in the United States, there are no textbooks published with the sole purpose of teaching this language to American students. Kurtulus Öztopçu’s Elementary Turkish is the first book of its kind to be available in the U.S. for this purpose. Dr. Öztopçu is a Turkish instructor with many years of teaching experience and is uniquely qualified for this task.

The topics, functions and grammar points that are selected for this book are those recommended in Language Learning Framework for Turkish. The two CD’s that come with the book provide ample listening exercises for students. The final section of the textbook contains an answer key to the listening sections and to the exercises followed by Turkish- English and an English- Turkish Glossary.

This is indeed a complete course book Turkish teachers and learners need. It is designed to provide beginning students with sufficient Turkish to meet most of their everyday needs. The approach to teaching is eclectic, using various teaching methodologies. It aims to develop all four-skill areas: speaking, listening, reading and writing. The book contains both authentic and teacher prepared materials. It also contains pictures that give students a glimpse of what Turkey is like.

I congratulate Dr. Öztopçu for publishing such an important book. I will recommend it to my students and I strongly encourage my colleagues to use it in their classes.

Güliz Kuruoğlu, Turkish Language Instructor, UCLA

 

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