The Routledge Intermediate Turkish Reader: Political and Cultural Articles

The Routledge Graded Modern Turkish Reader has been specially designed for intermediate and advanced learners of Turkish and comprises a broad selection of graded readings.Written by prominent Turkish academics and journalists, the collection of modern texts presented here have been specifically selected to ensure students receive maximum exposure to current political and cultural issues related to Turkey; from gender, ethnicity, religion and social class through to arts and history.Each reading is fully supported by:an introduction written by an expert in the related fielda vocabulary list with English translation and vocabulary in contextshort grammar explanations of any difficult structures encountered in the textcomprehension questions directly text related, language exercises and subject specific questions to generate class-discussion and essay writing in Turkishkey to comprehension questions and language exercisesa list of suggested further reading (online support).Suitable for both class use and independent study, The Routledge Graded Modern Turkish Reader is an essential tool for increasing language proficiency and enriching the learners' socio-cultural knowledge of Turkey.Åženel ÅžimÅŸek is an expert on sociolinguistics and has been teaching Turkish at the University of Oxford, UK, since 2004.