The Use of Reported Past Tense in Gossip Narratives: A Study on Turkish Textbooks for Foreigners

The reported past tense is one of the basic grammar topics taught to learners in teaching Turkish as a foreign language. It explained textbooks used for language that this mode has functions “hearing from another” and “become aware events later time”. In our daily lives, not welcomed well certain extent society; however, it also “gossip” relation function hearing someone else. Although gossip narratives foreigners are included examples mode, what purpose serves. study, with “-mIş” morpheme were summarized based on relevant literature reference usage verbs conjugated suffix emphasized; by focusing how presented foreigners, inclusion gossip-functioned texts books evaluated critical approach.