PRE-SERVICE LANGUAGE TEACHER EDUCATION IN TURKEY.

In this paper, critical analysis of language teacher education and educational planning following a historical overview in Turkey is presented. The analysis intends to cover both pre-service and in-service language teacher education with the sole idea that they both complement each other and without one the other lacks an important component in terms of teacher development. Historically, it is possible to classify pre-service language education into three categories as Pre-Ottoman Period, Ottoman Period, and Post-Ottoman Period; however, for in-service language teacher education, only Post-Ottoman Period is analyzed since there is limited information about the issue before this period so far. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]