Assessment of foreign langauge teaching at high (secondary) school and university levels in terms of CEFR standards

This research is aimed to assess the perception of students' foreign language learning skills in terms of CEFR in the twelfth grade at high school and in the first grade at university level. This research was conducted within suvey researching model. Research's glob was constituted with students studying in the twelfth grade of high school and in the first grade of university in Malatya. The sample was consisted of 795 students selected from this universe based on the easy sampling method. 392 of those students were ones who were studying in different programmes at Inonu University, and 403 of those were from twelfth grade of high school in Malatya Province. Apart from that, the instructors and teachers who attend the English classes of these students who study at Inonu University and the schools affiliated to the National Education were asked to evaluate these students in terms of the items in the data collection tool. As a research's data collection tool, the questionnaire constructed within scope of CEFR's standards (Common European Framework of References for Languages) was chosen to be used. European Language Portfolio (ELP), including 221 questionnaire items, was developed by leading of European Council's Language Policies Unit for the purpose of language learners to do self-assessment about their language learning progresses independently. In the study, numbers and percentages were used as descriptive statistical methods in the evaluation of the data obtained. Differences between the ratios of categorical variables in independent groups were analyzed through Chi-square and Fisher exact tests. According to the findings obtained as a result of the research, the language level of the majority of both high school and university students was below A1. The rate of those with language level below A2 was higher in university students, and the rate of those with the language level below C2 was higher in high school students, An other finding of research's result indicates that woman students' language level is higher than those of boy students'. Ones whose rate of language level was below A1 was found high among boy students. Ones whose language level was below C2 was higher in woman students. The language levels of the students differed significantly according to both teacher and student perceptions. According to the teachers' language perceived rate that was below A1 was found high in high school students, but the rate that was below B2 was found higher in university students. The rate of those whose teacher's perceived language level was below C1 was high among university students. The fact that the students forming the sample were not at the expected level in terms of CEFR levels necessitates the revision of the MEB curriculum. The fact that the students' langauge achievement rates being observed mostly at A1 and below A1 levels, which were occurred for both student groups in different institutions high school and university, revealed the inadequacy of language education in university (tertiery) educational programs as well, following high(secondary) school educational processes. As a result, it is suggested that language education at higher education level should also be restructured in a way that it could provide a solution to this matter.