Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
GlobELT 2018 Conference, Belgrade, Sırbistan, 10 Mayıs 2018 - 13 Şubat 2025, ss.43
Importance of an effective curriculum has long been acknowledged and appreciated by all sides of education such as teachers, supervisors, administrators, politicians, parents and students. In Turkey, designing and developing such a curriculum is monopolized by the ministry of education at K12 level. This standard curriculum makes English classes obligatory starting from the primary school level and aims to build enough English language skills to climb up in CEFR until the end of high school. However, it is disappointing to see that majority of students are not able to acquire enough of English language skills and have to attend English preparation school to study in an English medium university. This study has been inspired from the urge to dig out the curriculum aspect of this problem with the evaluation conducted by students. Rather than collecting data from teachers, parents, administrators or supervisors, this study explores the students’ experiences to evaluate the state high school curriculum from a different perspective, to identify possible problems and to shed light on future improvements. Students have been chosen as they are the subjects of this curriculum and got most affected from it. The data of the study has been collected from elementary and intermediate level students of an English medium university in Ankara through a questionnaire designed by the researcher of this study. In the questionnaire, students are asked to evaluate the various aspects of the curriculum with the help of a Likert scale and also to state their opinion by responding to two open-ended questions. The results of the study indicate several problems related to components of English curriculum such as insufficient planning, and lack of materials to teach all the skills, and also some other important issues that affect the curriculum like valid and reliable testing. The results of this study have potential to guide the amendments that can be done in high school curriculum. Also, by taking students’ ideas stated in this research into consideration more student participation in ELT classes can be achieved and issues that have not been raised before can be acknowledged.