Reflection Task 2

 To Learn Foreign Language in Turkey

  There are too many ways for someone to learn foreign language. You can learn it with your parents by speaking, you can learn it in school or can also learn it by taking a course and so on as you see there are many ways to learn a foreign language but I think there is something wrong with Turkish people or Turkey’s education system. I mean when you look at students who have been studying at least for ten years to learn a foreign language cannot speak this foreign language. What is the problem? Why cannot our students speak or write even if they have learned this foreign language for a long time? In my opinion there is something totally wrong and the wrong is not anything but education system. For instance in my high school students were taught only grammar but they were still bad at grammar moreover they were also bad at both speaking and writing. It is the most ridiculous way to teach a foreign language. If I was a teacher and had 4 hours to teach them the language, I would teach them grammar in two hours (because of the exams they have to pass), would speak with them in one hour and in another one hour I would teach them to write by using these styles I would develop their skills. I think you cannot learn a foreign language only with its grammar structures. I know grammar is important but the others are as important as grammar.  Unfortunately Turkey’s education system does not allow teachers to carry out these teaching styles.

Reflection task 1

Hi! My name is Büşra. I am from Turkey. But I am not totally a Turkish girl. I am half Albanian and half Turkish. My mother is from Albanian and my father is from Turkey. I want to introduce myself. I have curly hair, I am not tall and I am not fat, my eyes are green. In the past I used to play with my baby dolls but I left them and I started to play guitar. I have been playing guitar for a long time and I want to be a singer because my voice is really good and I am good at playing guitar. I used to want to be a doctor but I don’t want anymore because I realized that I don’t love studying so much. If you want to be a doctor, you have to study so much in my country and it really doesn’t fit me. Actually I don’t know what I must say about myself. I am studying at METU. I want to speak about my last day at METU. I went to my department and I had a midterm it was easy but I was so excited. I had French exam too but it was not good. I have a lot of exam and I don’t know what I will do. I hope I will pass the exams with a high grade. And that’s all I hope you will like me J