Teaching English in Turkey: Dialogues with teachers about the challenges in public primary schools

Teaching English in Turkey: Dialogues with teachers about the challenges in public primary schools

Teaching English in Turkey has its own potential problems due to the lack of authenticlanguage input. Turkey is a foreign language context. This hinders learners in theirmastering English in a short time. Moreover, other problems caused by poor instructionalplanning contribute to this process negati...

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Main Author: Ayse KIZILDAG
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Kura Publishing 2009-06-01
Series:International Electronic Journal of Elementary Education
Subjects:
Teaching English
Turkey
public primary schools
challenges
Online Access:http://www.iejee.com/1_3_2009/kizildag.pdf
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spelling doaj-c38921de202c47d19e6f9025bf0e26772020-11-25T03:52:01ZengKura PublishingInternational Electronic Journal of Elementary Education1307-92982009-06-0113188201Teaching English in Turkey: Dialogues with teachers about the challenges in public primary schoolsAyse KIZILDAGTeaching English in Turkey has its own potential problems due to the lack of authenticlanguage input. Turkey is a foreign language context. This hinders learners in theirmastering English in a short time. Moreover, other problems caused by poor instructionalplanning contribute to this process negatively. With these potential hindrances, the presentstudy aims to seek what other challenges incapacitate primary schools for teaching/learningof English. Conducted with 20 primary school teachers working at public schools in Turkey,data were collected using a semi-structured interview. Results show that poor institutionalplanning is the main cause of challenges experienced by English language teachers. Besidesthis, instructional and socio-cultural/economic problems are the other challenges forteaching English.http://www.iejee.com/1_3_2009/kizildag.pdfTeaching EnglishTurkeypublic primary schoolschallenges
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International Electronic Journal of Elementary Education
Teaching English
Turkey
public primary schools
challenges
author_facet Ayse KIZILDAG
author_sort Ayse KIZILDAG
title Teaching English in Turkey: Dialogues with teachers about the challenges in public primary schools
title_short Teaching English in Turkey: Dialogues with teachers about the challenges in public primary schools
title_full Teaching English in Turkey: Dialogues with teachers about the challenges in public primary schools
title_fullStr Teaching English in Turkey: Dialogues with teachers about the challenges in public primary schools
title_full_unstemmed Teaching English in Turkey: Dialogues with teachers about the challenges in public primary schools
title_sort teaching english in turkey: dialogues with teachers about the challenges in public primary schools
publisher Kura Publishing
series International Electronic Journal of Elementary Education
issn 1307-9298
publishDate 2009-06-01
description Teaching English in Turkey has its own potential problems due to the lack of authenticlanguage input. Turkey is a foreign language context. This hinders learners in theirmastering English in a short time. Moreover, other problems caused by poor instructionalplanning contribute to this process negatively. With these potential hindrances, the presentstudy aims to seek what other challenges incapacitate primary schools for teaching/learningof English. Conducted with 20 primary school teachers working at public schools in Turkey,data were collected using a semi-structured interview. Results show that poor institutionalplanning is the main cause of challenges experienced by English language teachers. Besidesthis, instructional and socio-cultural/economic problems are the other challenges forteaching English.
topic Teaching English
Turkey
public primary schools
challenges
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