Abstract:

Nowadays, technological developments have increased the needs of individuals to communicate and at the same time their opportunities. This has made it a need to learn and teach English, which is widely used as a foreign language in individual and inter-national relations. The teaching of English in Turkey is carried out in the framework of specific programs. In this study, 5 of the foreign language teaching programmes implemented in our country. Class English Teaching Program with a pilot application of Foreign Language Weight 5. It is intended to compare the elements of the class English Teaching Program. In the study, both English Teaching Programs are studied in terms of achievements, content, educational conditions and evaluation items. Firstly, print and virtual resources related to the English Teaching Programs included in the field-text were scanned. Since both programs are implemented at national level, the data related to the programs is obtained from MEB-related sources. The data obtained about the programs have been analyzed and the elements of both programs have been compared. Frequency tables of the data obtained as a result of the reviews are created. The study examined the four basic language skills and communication achievements included in both programs; level, scope and numerical, and observed differences in achievements. The content employed has been revealed; the conformity to the student level, the level of meeting the student needs, the scope of units, intensity, weekly distribution and differences in its up-to-date. In terms of the educational conditions, the differences in the approach followed in teaching and the up-to-date of the methods-techniques used have been determined. When programmes are addressed in terms of evaluation size, both programmes have studied the levels of the use of measuring tools for the inclusion of the four basic areas of language skills (hearing, speaking, reading, writing) and the measurement of mixed skills. The research result, discussing the core elements of both programs in the literature accompanying, included recommendations for making the programs functional.