English Language Teacher Education Programs at Turkish Universities: A Statistical Overview

Authors : Mehmet ASMALI

Pages : 1-13

Doi:10.55993/hegp.1204834

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Publication Date : 2023-07-05

Article Type : Research Paper

Abstract :Considering the significant role of English Language Teacher Education insert ignore into journalissuearticles values(ELTE); programs on future English teachers’ teaching skills and eventually on the English proficiency of future generations, the present study investigated some statistics concerning the academics and students of these programs. All the statistics were gathered from YÖK Atlas, a website initiated by Council of Higher Education insert ignore into journalissuearticles values(CoHE); in Turkey. The data were analyzed to find out the differences between public and private universities’ ELTE programs, and to find out correlations among various elements of the ELTE programs regardless of the type of universities. The findings revealed the superiority of the ELTE programs at public universities over the ones at private universities on various aspects. However, students’ decreasing number of ELTE program preferences in recent years at both public and private universities were among the major findings of the present study. Moreover, some positive correlations among the variables were reported. The findings were discussed in the light of the related literature.
Keywords : English language teacher education, public universities, private universities, language teaching in Turkey