The purpose of this paper is to evaluate English Language Teaching (hereafter, ELT) undergraduate programs in Turkey. In the scope of the evaluation study, the ELT undergraduate programs of six universities-three state, three private-in Istanbul are selected via convenient sampling method. The qualitative study is based on document analysis…

This study aims to evaluate the English Language Teacher Education practicum offered at a state university in Turkey to discover (1) the strengths and weaknesses of the programme and (2) the needs and problems experienced by student teachers. Data were collected through an adapted version of the Survey of Teacher Education Programs (STEP)…

The curricula of all departments in the faculty of education have been designed by Higher Education Council unlike the curricula of other faculties in Turkish higher education. After the regulation in 2006, all faculties of education throughout Turkey carried out the curricula until the new changes in 2018. It is the same for English Language…

Along with the expansion of computer technologies in education, an increasing number of academic degrees and professional development credentials in second-language (L2) education are offered online. Despite the rapid growth in the number of online language teacher education (OLTE) programmes, there is still a dearth of research about OLTE and its…

The Bilingual Teacher Training Program in the Center for Bilingual/Multicultural Studies at the California State University, Chico, is a 1-year field-centered, competency-based program to train bilingual education teachers to meet increased demand. Trainees are placed in blocks of coursework and have field placement in bilingual classrooms.…

A study was done to develop and evaluate a program designed to improve the academic and personal achievement of Hispanic American high school students. The study posited that the causes of Hispanic American students' belief that they could not achieve were: (1) dysfunctional learned behaviors; and (2) acculturation difficulties. Using findings on…

This third-party evaluation report, presented in six sections, begins with an introductory section on the procedures used to evaluate the Bilingual Human Services Educational Consortium. (The consortium, a one-year college level program, prepares underemployed and unemployed Franco-Americans for paraprofessional human service jobs.) Also described…