An evaluation of ma english language teaching programme at Çukurova university from students' perspectives

The main purpose of this study is to evaluate the Master of Arts programme offered at the English Language Teaching Department of Çukurova University by taking the opinions of the students who have completed the course period. Field scanning of the graduate programmes in Turkey has been made and in this direction, research questions were created to meet the needs. When evaluating this program, students' reasons for enrollment, course, content, student support, and a general evaluation of the program were required. When these components were taken into consideration, the study examined the quality as well as the strengths and weaknesses of the current program evaluated by the students and aimed to provide important information to decision-makers. In addition, the data on to what extent the expectations of the students enrolled in this program are met are also presented. A literature review was conducted to compile a data collection tool that was adapted to the study to collect quantitative data and questions were developed to be used in semi-structured interviews to obtain the qualitative data. While the quantitative data obtained was evaluated statistically, qualitative data was analyzed and evaluated by coding and theming method. The results reveal the main reasons for the enrollment as well as significant information about the strenghts and weaknesses of the programme at hand. Keywords: Programme evaluation, students' perspective, evaluation