English teachers’ perceptions of the middle school English language curriculum

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2020-06-01

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Kaya, Suat
Ok, Ahmet

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In this study, which utilized survey as the research design, it was aimed tofind out the teachers’ perceptions of the middle school English languagecurriculum which was developed in 2012 and revised in 2016. Targetpopulation of this study included all teachers working in Turkish publicmiddle schools in Ankara, while the sample was composed of 349 teachersselected through clustered sampling method. A questionnaire developed bythe researchers was used as data collection instrument. Findings revealedthat many problems with respect to the components of the curriculumdeveloped in 2012 have been solved, while only a few but most crucialproblems still exist. It was concluded that this curriculum cannot developstudents’ autonomy, communicative competence, and their writing,listening, and speaking skills. More research was suggested to be conductedto find out whether this failure resulted from the design itself orimplementation process.

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Middle school English curriculum, Teacher perceptions, English teacher

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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/93992

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International Journal of Curriculum and Instructional Studies

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https://doi.org/10.31704/ijocis.2020.005

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Department of Educational Sciences, Article

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S. Kaya and A. Ok, “English teachers’ perceptions of the middle school English language curriculum,” International Journal of Curriculum and Instructional Studies, vol. 10, no. 1, pp. 119–148, 2020, Accessed: 00, 2021. [Online]. Available: https://hdl.handle.net/11511/93992.