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This paper focuses on teaching science in CLIL. Problem sentence of the research was determined as “what is the success and attitude level of elementary school 8 th grade schools who receive science education in a foreign language (English)?”. The study was designed in accordance with correlational survey method, which is a quantitative method, and its universe was provided by 8 th grade students who attend science and technology classes in English at private and public schools of Northern Cyprus. “Science and Technology Class Attitude Scale” and “Science and Technology Class Success Scale” were used as data collection tools. Arithmetic average, standard deviation, correlation and t-test were employed for analyzing the data. Average of the scores obtained by students from success test was 4,18 (over 20), whereas their average academic success score was 8,85 (over 10). The fact that students received low scores from success test despite their high academic success scores is thought-provoking. Different from the scores provided by success test, attitude scores of students were found to be higher than the average value (3,40, according to 5 Likert scale).

One of the important factors that affect a teacher's success and efficiency is his/her attitude towards the profession. For the realization of an efficient / active mother tongue teaching, mother tongue teachers need to have a positive attitude towards he profession. The fundamental objective of this study is to determine the mother tongue (Turkish) prospective teachers’ attitudes towards the teaching profession according to their “genders”, “classes” and “socio-economic” levels, their reasons for choosing this profession, what the problems they may confront when they start the profession are and whether the education they received is sufficient. The study is built with a structure suitable for combined approach where qualitative and quantitative analysis methods will be used together. The study group of the research consists of students (n= 117) that are students at the first, second, third and fourth classes at Near East University Faculty of Education Department of Turkish Language Teaching in 2008-2009 Academic Year Fall Semester and that are selected by use of random sampling method. In order to evaluate prospective teachers’ attitudes towards teaching profession, 5-point Likert-type attitude scale (Cronbach alpha value α=0.95) developed by Cetin in 2006 was used. The qualitative data in the study was collected using four open ended questions. For the analysis of the data, t-test and descriptive analysis methods were used. A significant difference occurred in favor of female prospective teachers in relation to the gender factor. No significant difference between attitude scores was observed in relation to the effects of class and socio-economic level. The majority of prospective teachers chose Turkish language teaching because they love the profession. The prospective teachers’ most important concern about their future is “not being appointed”. The prospective teachers think that there are some deficiencies in the education they receive.