Original article | Open Access
International Journal of Progressive Education 2021, Vol. 17(5) 364-376
pp. 364 - 376 | DOI: https://doi.org/10.29329/ijpe.2021.375.23
Publish Date: September 30, 2021 | Single/Total View: 454/693 | Single/Total Download: 654/1.157
Abstract
This study provides a much-needed socio-political perspective on language teaching in Turkey and identifies key influences and orthodoxies past and present and their impact on current practices of language learning. The researchers provide a refreshing critique of successive cycles of policies and how they have variously sought to secure starting with imperial, nationalist, and contemporary populist ambitions of language teaching in the classroom and beyond. Almost 150 years of such efforts have frequently shoehorned teaching practices with inevitable consequences for language acquisition from primary education to university. Along with the contemporary educational changes before and after the foundation of the Turkish Republic, the researchers aim to shed light on the chronological records of language teacher education by drawing parallelism between general teacher education and language teacher education in Turkey. The paper concludes with suggestions for improving our understanding of present-day challenges in a field that remains fundamental to the future of the country.
Keywords: Language Teacher Education; The Ottoman Empire; Turkish Republic Era; Language Policy in Turkey; Curriculum Reform
APA 7th edition
Balbay, S., & Dogan, C. (2021). English Language Teaching and Language Teacher Education in Turkey- An Evolutionary Overview. International Journal of Progressive Education, 17(5), 364-376. https://doi.org/10.29329/ijpe.2021.375.23
Harvard
Balbay, S. and Dogan, C. (2021). English Language Teaching and Language Teacher Education in Turkey- An Evolutionary Overview. International Journal of Progressive Education, 17(5), pp. 364-376.
Chicago 16th edition
Balbay, Seher and Cemile Dogan (2021). "English Language Teaching and Language Teacher Education in Turkey- An Evolutionary Overview". International Journal of Progressive Education 17 (5):364-376. https://doi.org/10.29329/ijpe.2021.375.23