Turkiye`deki kıdemli ve genç dil öğretmenlerinin iletişimsel dil öğretiminin teorisi hakkındaki farkındalıklarının karşılaştırılması

As it is agreed in the world, English is a world wide language that is spoken in every country by billions of people for different purposes in different fields. It is that, purposefully, people need English ?somewhat, in every step of their lives. This considerable reason behind the seeking of the best approach or method for teaching English -especially as foreign language, has been the matter of scientist for many years. Throughout these years in English language teaching methodology researches, it has been tried out remarkably so many approaches that led methods and techniques.Starting from the end of the 60s and early 70s the view of language for communication started to appear in the milieu of language teaching researches and negotiations as a consistent way of language teaching.That was the approach of Communicative Language Teaching was in the agenda of linguists, applied linguists, researches and at last language teachers. So it is not wrong to say that CLT have been germinated -by developing, since these years to present. Also the techniques ?throughout these years, have been tried, also developed and presented to be performed to language teachers in teacher training programmes like in faculties. This study has turned into a kind of case study that is dealing with the awareness of senior and junior language teachers on theoretical framework of communicative language teaching in Turkey. The basic reason for that kind of study is to learn the existing awareness of CLT theory and the discrepancies between these two groups of language teachers on this awareness. Also the need of the study is that senior and junior language teachers are working in same educational settings.It was started out considering the ideal that without having knowledge it is not possible for teachers to perform CLT in their classroom settings. To accomplish this comparative study 14 language teachers from the primary schools and high schools were surveyed. The survey gathered the information about the awareness of these two groups of language teachers. At the end of this study it is observed that the senior language teachers are in loss of theoretical background of CLT comparing to junior language teachers. Even the senior language teachers started to work in the very middle of the impact of CLT in Turkey, they are not enough cognizant to communicative language teaching theory.The findings of this study give a general insight to authorities, researchers, teacher trainers in terms of in-service-training of language teachers.Key Words: Communicative Language Teaching, Communicative Competence