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English in Turkey 

Why does the Turkish education system fails to teach English? English is an easy-to-learn language with the most speakers in the world, yet in Turkey most people can not speak English properly. In this essay I’m going to discuss causes and solutions for this. 

Firstly, the key to learning any language is communication and this is widely neglected in Turkish schools. Instead of actually teaching it, it aims to make students reach a certain threshold and load them with temporary information so they can pass their exams.
This problem can easily be solved by inspecting schools, preparing proper environments for students to interact and communicate with each other and making the goal actually learning instead of passing some exam.

Secondly, sufficient material for teaching and learning English is not provided to the vast majority of schools and those provided with are not accessible for most students. This is rather a problem of the whole education system, not a problem of English language teaching specifically. There are several ways to work out on this, one is investing more into the education system and funding various foundations and associations who bring education to a larger segment of society and provide them with accessible education. Another is cooperating with world-wide academicians and educators to produce and equip our schools quality and internationally valid source material.

Lastly, lack of capable English teachers. This is a rather deep-rotted problem as it would take generations to solve this probleme entirely. When a student in a country with poor english education becomes a english a teacher, he/she raises incapable students as well, causing a chain reaction through years. To break this chain, we should work on how we educate out teachers first. After that we should re-educate our teachers and make them avoid teacher based methods, create a relaxing atmosphere and not turn learning into a race. 

In conclusion, Turkish education system lacks essential points which are hard but not impossible to solve. The only thing needs to be done is standing up and taking the first step. 


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