مرکز منطقه ای اطلاع رساني علوم و فناوري - German Education as a Second Foreign Language in Anatolian High Schools: The Case of Batman

Abstract :

The aim of the study is to determine the sufficiency of teachers and infrastructure related to the Anatolian high schools in Batman city center and its districts (Batman). Thus, the number of permanent and contracted teachers working in Anatolian high schools in Batman and the appropriateness of their educational environments with regard to foreign language education were primarily discussed in this study. We analyzed the data, obtained from the questionnaire which were applied to the Anatolian high school principals, via descriptive research model that is one of the qualitative research methods based on the interpretation of the information obtained by gathering detailed information on the research subject. As a result of the study, we observed that a large part of the Anatolian high schools had a problem with the staff teaching German, and the principals avoid to fill the deficiency of German teachers with contracted teachers. In addition to these findings, language classrooms or language laboratories were not in any school.