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Educational Policy Analysis and Strategic Research 2020, Vol. 15(1) 73-93
pp. 73 - 93 | DOI: https://doi.org/10.29329/epasr.2020.236.5
Publish Date: March 24, 2020 | Single/Total View: 278/894 | Single/Total Download: 455/1.498
Abstract
The profession of teaching is defined in Article 43 of the Fundamental Law of National Education no. 1739 as a specialized profession that undertakes education, training and other related administrative duties of the state, and the qualifications of teachers are evaluated under two sections as general qualifications and special field qualifications. Teacher qualifications are competencies that are required to be possessed by all teachers under training to achieve national education goals. In addition to this, teaching one's native language as a foreign language is a task that requires an additional area of expertise. The increasing interest in Turkish, escalating immigration rates and other reasons have caused the importance of teaching Turkish as a foreign language to increase. This growing interest caused certain problems. The lack of expert educators in terms of quality and quantity is one of the main problems. The Ministry of National Education assigns lecturers and teachers every year in order to meet the demand for Turkish educators from abroad. The aim of this study is to determine the field qualifications of teachers who are awaiting assignment after having passed the exam held by the Ministry of National Education to be assigned abroad. The study was designed as a case study. The random purposeful (purposive) sampling method and the purposive criterion sampling method were used to determine the study group. The study group consists of 10 teachers and lecturers awaiting assignment after having passed the foreign lecturing exam held by the Ministry of National Education. The data collection phase of the study was carried out using the interview method. Therefore, an eleven-question interview form was prepared, including questions on the awareness of teachers toward teaching Turkish to foreigners, their educational background and the educational process of teaching Turkish to foreigners. The data were transferred to the MAXQDA 12 qualitative data analysis program and the content analysis technique was used in the analysis of the data. Study results showed that most of the teachers in the study group had low awareness toward their assignment and a lack of knowledge on methods-techniques, material and planning, and that most of the participants lacked training in their fields.
Keywords: Teaching Turkish as a foreign language, teacher’s competencies, teacher education
APA 7th edition
Mutlu, H.H. (2020). A Case Study on the Competencies of the Teachers Assigned Abroad by the Ministry of National Education to Teach Turkish to Foreigners. Educational Policy Analysis and Strategic Research, 15(1), 73-93. https://doi.org/10.29329/epasr.2020.236.5
Harvard
Mutlu, H. (2020). A Case Study on the Competencies of the Teachers Assigned Abroad by the Ministry of National Education to Teach Turkish to Foreigners. Educational Policy Analysis and Strategic Research, 15(1), pp. 73-93.
Chicago 16th edition
Mutlu, Hasan Huseyin (2020). "A Case Study on the Competencies of the Teachers Assigned Abroad by the Ministry of National Education to Teach Turkish to Foreigners". Educational Policy Analysis and Strategic Research 15 (1):73-93. https://doi.org/10.29329/epasr.2020.236.5