AN ANALYSIS OF STUDIES ON MATERIAL PREPARATION IN TEACHING TURKISH AS A FOREIGN LANGUAGE

Today, the need for materials in the field of teaching Turkish as a foreign language is increasing. Especially effective teaching materials play an important role in making the language learning process more efficient and interesting. In this context, examining academic studies on the preparation of teaching materials provides an important accumulation of knowledge in the field. The aim of this study is to examine master's and doctoral theses on material preparation in teaching Turkish as a foreign language. The theses accessed from the National Thesis Center covering the years 2014-2024 were taken as the basis. In this research, 27 theses that can be used in language teaching activities were analyzed using the document analysis method. In the scanning process, basic concepts such as “material, material preparation, material in Turkish teaching and material in teaching Turkish as a foreign language” were used. Descriptive analysis technique was used in the research. It was determined that the majority of the postgraduate theses examined in the study were at the master's level, most of the theses were done in 2019 and 2024, no thesis was found in 2020, it was intensified in recent years, and the method was more prominent. It was determined that the most frequently used keyword was “teaching Turkish as a foreign language” documents were mostly preferred as data collection tools was most commonly used in the studies. Keywords: Turkish education, teaching Turkish as a foreign language, graduate theses, material, material preparation