THE EUROPEAN POLICY ABOUT TRAINING STUDENTS OF LANGUAGES

Yıl 2020, Cilt: 3, 55 - 61, 19.01.2020

Özcan İlginç Demirsu

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The European Union (EU) is a political and economic union which comprises 28 member states
primarily located in Europe. It works for its members to promote peace, its values and the well-being
of its citizens. Offer freedom, security and justice without internal borders. It also aims to enhance
economic, social and territorial cohesion and solidarity among EU countries. Consequently, education
becomes one of the most important issues in Europe that is urged on. Especially, language education
has a key position. Learning language means developing a multicultural identity and knowing about
different cultures. In order to provide a better language education, training prospective language
teachers in accordance with current educational principles has a significant role. European
Commission has introduced several documents for teaching, learning, assessing and teacher training
in Europe according to the European Educational Policy. This study examines the documents
developed for prospective language teachers in order to identify the European policy about training
European language teachers. In the study, qualitative method based on document analysis was used.
The results of the study were discussed with relevant literature.

Anahtar Kelimeler

European policy, training language teachers

Kaynakça

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