Teachers and Students Views in Problems of the Foreign Primary School Students In Education Process Encountered

The aim of this research is to examine the problems of the foreign primary school students in the education process in Eskişehir and the solutions to these problems with the views of teachers and students. The data of this research, which is a qualitative study, was gathered through student- teacher personal data forms and student- teacher semi-structured interviews. The data as the part of the interviews was conducted in eight primary schools, twenty one primary school teachers and twenty four foreign primary students which are in the Eskişehir city center. Content analysis was used to analyze the data gathered in the study. Within the scope of the obtained data, it was determined that the main-theme educational problems of the foreign students encountered Language and cultural differences, Basic language skills, Understanding, Expression and comment, Lagging behind the program and Academic failure sub-themes. According to the data of this research, students unable to understand their teacher and friends, unable to contacting with people, unable to expressing their feelings and opinions and unable to attending to courses and this context student have a lower academic achievement or mostly they failed. The Solutions proposal to the problems of the foreign students in education encountered, “To Students”, “To teachers and the schools”, “To Families” and “To Ministry of Education and the governement” for advice collected under four sub-themes and the themes of these sub-temes were described in detail.