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.