It can be said that the methods and techniques used in teaching environments affect all variables related to the learning process. Many methods and techniques have been used over time in the process of teaching Turkish as a foreign language. In this context, the aim of this study is to examine the trends in postgraduate studies on teaching Turkish to foreigners, where different methods and techniques have been tried. The master's theses included in the study were examined based on specific variables. Given the nature of the research, document analysis alone was deemed sufficient, and no additional methods were employed. The data source for the study consists of 117 master's theses available from the YÖK National Thesis Center, which examine the impact of different methods and techniques on the teaching of Turkish as a foreign language. An evaluation form was prepared to classify the master's and doctoral research that formed the data source of the study according to the type of thesis, research topic, approach/method used in the thesis, and language skill variables addressed in the research. An examination of the findings reveals that 74 of the master's and doctoral studies were at the master's level and 43 were at the doctoral level. It was determined that the preferred topics in the studies were generally skill development. It was observed that most of the studies were prepared using a quantitative research approach, and experimental and survey methods were also frequently preferred. When looking at the types of language skills, it was seen that most of the studies covered all language skills.

Teaching Turkish to foreigners, language teaching methods and techniques, trend research