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- Title
ON "THE STEP BASED SYSTEM" AND UNPLANNED LANGUAGE PLANNING: REDISCOVERING AMERICA?
- Authors
KAHRAMAN, Ayhan
- Abstract
Political fluctuations and unplannedness have strong influences on different aspects of language planning policies of a country. For example, the foreign language policy of Turkey has turned to a scratch pad in the last four decades. That is, each fluctuation changed the ministers of national education and each minister entirely changed the foreign language policy from top to down. Nevertheless, state policies need to be stable and consistent. It should not be dependent on individuals or political disturbance. That is, before putting an educational policy or a reform movement into practice, it needs to be well prepared, in depth planned and successfully piloted which was not the case with foreign language policies in the past. What even worse is, nowadays the history seems to repeat itself and therefore this paper suggests re-evaluating what earlier in the history has happened before discovering America once and again.
- Subjects
TURKEY; LANGUAGE planning; FOREIGN language education; EDUCATION policy; EDUCATIONAL change
- Publication
Dumlupinar University Journal of Social Science / Dumlupinar Üniversitesi Soysyal Bilimler Dergisi, 2012, Vol 1, Issue 32, p203
- ISSN
1302-1842
- Publication type
Article