TO BENEFIT FROM DIWAN POETRY IN TEACHING TURKISH TO FOREIGNERS: A GRAMMAR OF THE TURKISH LANGUAGE EXAMPLE OF ARTHUR LUMLEY DAVIDS

Abstract

British orientalist who lived a short life of 21 years Arthur Lumley Davids (1811-1832) in 1832 to teach Turkish to English II. Mahmoud dedicated to A Grammar Of The Turkish Language has written the book. This book is more than just an ordinary grammar book. This book, which contains important information in terms of Turcology, has a different feature than all other books written in order to teach Turkish to foreigners. An introduction, grammar, vocabulary, dialogues and adds in this book consists of four sections, namely, a lot of materials from diwan poetry seems to be benefiting. In a grammar book prepared by an orientalist be used to teach Turkish to foreigners materials of diwan poetry is an issue we need to focus on by. Davids, in his book, particularly grammatical issues in the section, word grammar at the level of the relevant grammar, then contains the grammatical structure contained in the verse. He made a first in this field by recording the reading pieces from Bâkî and Mesîhî to the appendices of the book. In this study, the sample poems of Davids are given by Arabic letters. Based on these materials, some conclusions have been made in the outcome bidding.