COMPARISON OF TURKISH A1 PROFICIENCY LEVEL TEXTBOOK TITLED YEDİ İKLİM (SEVEN CLIMATES) AND KOREAN 1A-1B PROFICIENCY LEVEL TEXTBOOK TITLED SEJONG HANGUGO IN TERMS OF THEME AND WORDS

People, from past to present, have come to need to learn different languages other than their own language for various reasons, and they have made use of textbooks to learn and teach a new language. for this reason, numerous institutions and organizations have prepared textbooks according to the proficiency levels related to language teaching. however, the most important issues to be considered while preparing these language learning/teaching textbooks are the identification of the teaching themes and the relevant words suitable for these themes. in recent years, turkey and south korea have made great progress in both political and commercial fields. consequently, both turkish culture and korean cultures have started to attract global attention. therefore, in order to get to know and learn about the two cultures more closely, people have been watching korean and turkish tv series and listening to their songs. furthermore, the people who are interested in turkish and korean cultures enrol at language teaching institutions and organizations to learn turkish and korean languages. the yunus emre institute promotes turkish history, culture and art through 58 cultural centers abroad and teaches turkish in these centers. the king sejong institute, which is supported by the korean government's ministry of culture, sports and tourism, like the yunus emre institute, both teaches korean and promotes korean culture in 180 institutes in 60 countries. in the present study, the themes and words available in the textbooks prepared by both institutes for language teaching at a1proficiency level will be examined and compared. the aim of the present study is to compare the a1 proficiency level turkish language teaching textbook titled yedi iklim (seven climates) and the 1a-1b proficiency level textbooks korean language teaching textbooks titled sejong hangugo and assist those who will prepare and write turkish and korean textbooks.