%0 Journal Article %T Evaluation of Activities (5, 6, 7 and 8. Grade) in Secondary School Turkish Language Textbooks %A B¨¹NYAM£¿N SARIKAYA %J - %D 2019 %X The aim of this study is to evaluate the activities in the secondary school (5th, 6th, 7th and 8th grade) Turkish language textbooks from different perspectives. More specifically, the study seeks answers to the following questions: Are the activities in the textbooks main text-based? Are visual elements used in the activities? And, if so, what types of visual elements are used? For data collection, the activities in the new Turkish language textbooks valid as of the academic year 2018-2019 were evaluated. In this descriptive study, document analysis, which is one of qualitive research methods, has been used. According to the result of the review, the fifth, sixth, seventh and eighth grade Turkish language textbooks contain 191, 246, 307 and 188 activities, respectively. Results show that 602 of a total of 932 activities are main text-based (%64,59) and that 99, 233, 223 and 166 of the activities in the fifth-, sixth-, seventh- and eighth- grade textbooks, respectively, do not contain visual elements. The number of the nonvisual activities in these textbooks is 721. As a result of findings, it has been proposed that Turkish textbooks should be prepared more carefully in every aspect, more visual activities should be included in Turkish textbooks and that activities should be more aligned with the main texts %K Ders kitab£¿ %K etkinlik %K T¨¹rk£¿e dersi %U http://dergipark.org.tr/ataunitaed/issue/43122/522550