Basic Concepts of Language Education

This work, which is the first in its field; It was written in order to identify and bring together the concepts and terms that determine the scientific field of language teaching. In the book, nearly 500 terms and concepts are explained and interpreted in alphabetical order. An encyclopedic style was followed in the explanations made. Interrelated terms and concepts are specifically mentioned at the end of the explanations. In determining the concepts and terms, mother tongue education, foreign language teaching, linguistics, education-teaching principles and methods, special teaching methods, learning psychology, bilingualism, communication, text knowledge, brain, memory, language diseases, reading education, speech education, writing education, listening education, primary literacy education, etc. the sources written in the fields were scanned; The determined terms were included in the book by being subjected to a certain elimination. In the selection of concepts and terms; their prevalence in academic studies and their frequency of use at undergraduate and graduate levels were taken into account.
This book, prepared for teacher candidates and teachers studying in the fields of Turkish teaching, classroom teaching, foreign language teaching, special education and educational sciences, will be useful to candidates who have graduated from philology departments and want to pursue postgraduate education in the field of language education, and especially valuable academics working in this field.