Abstract
The education system of the Ottoman Empire was always in a transformation process during its 600-year-history in Anatolia. On the other hand, New Turkish Republic was founded in 1923 based on a completely different regulation system which brought innovations in many areas including education. Accordingly, there were considerable changes in the school types, curricula and the basic elements of education such as the type of the original alphabet and the educational philosophies behind the whole educational system. Despite these significant changes, foreign language education (FLE) has always become a part of curricula, with a recent focus on English language. Therefore, as a part of the educational reforms, there have been many transformations in teaching English as a foreign language (EFL) in Turkey, especially in terms of the objectives and the standards. The aim of this study is to show the transformation and the development process of FLE in Turkish educational system through the Ottoman Empire and Turkish Republic in order to understand the contemporary status and the problems of English as a foreign language in Turkey.
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Sinem Maden, University of Lodz, Poland
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Conference: ECE2024
Stream: Foreign Languages Education & Applied Linguistics (including ESL/TESL/TEFL)
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Maden S. (2024) Transformation of the English Courses in the Turkish Educational System From the Ottoman Empire to the Republic of Turkey ISSN: 2188-1162 The European Conference on Education 2024: Official Conference Proceedings (pp. 91-103) https://doi.org/10.22492/issn.2188-1162.2024.7
To link to this article: https://doi.org/10.22492/issn.2188-1162.2024.7
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