KELİME ÖĞRETİMİ AÇISINDAN BİLMECELERİN YERİ: KÜÇÜKLER GAZETESİ ÖRNEĞİ
THE PLACE OF RIDDLES IN VOCABULARY TEACHING: KÜÇÜKLER GAZETESİ (JOURNAL OF THE CHILDREN) CASE

Summary/Abstract: Riddle is defined as a type of question that describes something in a difficult and confusing way and has a clever or funny answer, often asked as a game. Riddles draw attention not only as a means of game and entertainment but also as an effective literary genre in the development of children's basic language skills. This effect of riddles on children also manifests itself in the development of the vocabulary. As a matter of fact, developing the vocabulary in children is important both in learning the subtleties of the mother tongue and in using the language effectively. In this context, the riddles that are oral literary products enriches the material in studies on language education and contributes to the development of the child about language and thought. In this study, the riddles that were published in the journal titled Küçükler Gazetesi (Journal of The Children), which started publication in 1918 and published weekly and only its eight issues reached today, were included in the scope of the research. The existing issues of Küçükler Gazetesi have been obtained from Seyfettin Özege Library at Erzurum Atatürk University. One thing that draws attention on the covers of all the issues of the journal is that there is a riddle asked under the heading of “Our riddle.” This journal is seen to have had a different content than the other children's magazines published in the period of Küçükler Gazetesi. Within the scope of the study, the journal was transferred from old letters to new letters, analyzed and then the riddles overemphasized on the magazine were determined. The study is a qualitative research and the document review method is used when the data are obtained. On the study the importance of riddles in Küçükler Gazetesi was tried to detected in terms of vocabulary teaching .

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