Abstract
THE USE OF GRAPHS AND TABLES AS TOOLS OF VISUAL PRESENTATION AND VISUAL READING IN TURKISH LANGUAGE EDUCATION
Graphs and tables as the visual reading and presentation tools have been used in many fields from advertising sector to trade, and art to education. The widespread use of graphs and tables results from man's needs of comprehension and expression. Recently, they have been used widely in education, especially in the field of science, and they are utilized more and more by other disciplines. Turkish Language Education, as one of these disciplines, distinguishes from others since it aims to help students gain basic language skills (listening, reading, speaking, and writing). It is necessary to focus on the use of graphs and tables in Turkish Language courses in which new learning domains such as visual reading and visual presentation are taught to the students in addition to the basic language skills. This study focuses on the importance of the acquisition of graph and table creation skills as well as graph and table interpretation skills.
Keywords
Visual reading and presentation, graph, table, Turkish education, comprehension skill, expression sk