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

dc.creator	Ayse KIZILDAG
dc.date	2009-06-01T00:00:00Z
dc.date.accessioned	2015-07-20T22:17:18Z
dc.date.available	2015-07-20T22:17:18Z
dc.identifier	1307-9298
dc.identifier	https://doaj.org/article/c38921de202c47d19e6f9025bf0e2677
dc.identifier.uri	http://evidence.thinkportal.org/handle/123456789/18938
dc.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.
dc.language	English
dc.publisher	International Electronic Journal of Elementary Education
dc.relation	http://www.iejee.com/1_3_2009/kizildag.pdf
dc.relation	https://doaj.org/toc/1307-9298
dc.source	International Electronic Journal of Elementary Education, Vol 1, Iss 3, Pp 188-201 (2009)
dc.subject	Teaching English
dc.subject	Turkey
dc.subject	public primary schools
dc.subject	challenges
dc.subject	Education (General)
dc.subject	L7-991
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.subject	DOAJ:Education
dc.subject	DOAJ:Social Sciences
dc.subject	Education (General)
dc.subject	L7-991
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.subject	DOAJ:Education
dc.subject	DOAJ:Social Sciences
dc.subject	Education (General)
dc.subject	L7-991
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.subject	Education (General)
dc.subject	L7-991
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.subject	Education (General)
dc.subject	L7-991
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.title	Teaching English in Turkey: Dialogues with teachers about the challenges in public primary schools
dc.type	article