Türkiyedeki İngilizce öğretim elemanlarının hizmetiçi eğitim açısından ilgi alanları

The Interests of EFL Instructors in Turkey Regarding INSET Content Author : Emel Şentuna Thesis Chairperson : Julie Mathews Aydınlı Bilkent University, MA TEFL Program Committee Members: Dr. William E. Snyder Bilkent University, MA TEFL Program Dr. Tom Miller USIS The purpose of this study was to investigate the interests of EFL instructors' working in the preparatory schools of Turkish state universities regarding the content of in-service training programs and to find out whether EFL instructors feel the need for different content in in-service training programs at different points in their careers. The study was conducted in the Foreign Languages Departments of eighteen state universities. 530 EFL instructors in the following institutions participated in the study: Akdeniz University, Anadolu University, Ankara University, Boğaziçi University, Celal Bayar University, Çukurova University, Dokuz Eylül University, Ege University, Erciyes University, Hacettepe University, Karadeniz Technical University, Marmara University, Mersin University, Middle East Technical University, Muğla University, Osmangazi University, Sakarya University, Yıldız Teknik University.Data were collected through a questionnaire which consisted of two parts. In the first part, the participants were asked 53 Likert-scale questions to express their interests regarding different aspects of professional development in ELT. The second part included questions that allow participants to choose from more than one option, yes-no questions and open-ended questions to collect demographic information about I lie parlicipanls. Quantitative data analysis techniques were used to analyze the data. For the items in the first part of the questionnaire, frequencies, means, standard deviations, and t-test were calculated. Frequencies, means, and standard deviations were found to identify the instructors' general interests in terms of INSET content. Comparison of interests of the novice instructors who have less than 5 years of experience and the experienced instructors who have more than 5 years of experience were analyzed through means, standard deviations, and t-tests. The results of the data analyses revealed that the instructors are at least fairly interested in attending INSET courses on all the items asked in the questionnaire. They were found to be most interested in having further training on ways of motivating students and raising students' language awareness. The instructors also expressed interest in INSET courses on the implementation of new teaching methods, using new materials, raising their students' awareness of their goals and objectives, teaching vocabulary, teaching speaking, teaching reading, promoting interaction, ways of determining students' needs, and ways of evaluating the effectiveness of teaching. The results also indicated that the novice teachers are more interested than the experienced teachers in most of the topic areas related to INSET content. 32 of 53 questions revealed significant differences in the degrees of interest of the novice and experienced instructors. The reason of these differences in the instructors' degrees of interest might be the divergence in the year of experience. Implications for the development of teacher training programs in Turkey and for further research are discussed.