Completed project (February 2013 - January 2014)
Origin of funding: British Council
The introduction of 12 year compulsory education (4+4+4) brings major changes to the teaching and learning of foreign languages, especially English, in the Turkish state school system. The main objective of the project is to provide a national report by conducting a comprehensive and detailed needs assessment across Turkish state schools, covering each of primary, middle, high and vocational English language teaching schools and present the report to the Ministry of National Education in order to contribute to the studies on improving English language education.
TEPAV and the British Council will jointly implement the project under three main components:
- Current situation analysis based on the observations related to teachers and students;
- Analysis of the parents expectations and approach on their children’s English language education;
- Recommendations to the Ministry of National Education including an appropriate English language curriculum based on current teaching needs and expertise of English language teachers.
Within the scope of the project, classroom observations and interviews with English language teachers will be carried out in the primary, middle, high and vocational English language teaching state schools in 13 provinces (Ankara, Antalya, Balıkesir, Diyarbakır, Erzurum, Gaziantep, İstanbul, İzmir, Kayseri, Malatya, Mardin, Samsun and Trabzon) of Turkey. Surveys will be implemented to students and parents in 15 provinces (also including Yozgat and Bursa) and focus group meetings with teachers will be held in six of the provinces visited (Ankara, Antalya, Gaziantep, İstanbul, İzmir and Mardin).
Types of services to be provided by TEPAV is as follows:
- Design, implementation and analysis of the surveys prepared for nearly 9000 students and 3000 parents;
- Focus group meetings with teachers in six provinces;
- Participation to all activities with the consultant provided by the British Council;
- Contibution to the preparation and printing of the Final Repor;
- Presentation of the Final Report to the Ministry of National Education together with British Council.