@article{education2015394,
author={{Filiz, Sevil B¨šy¨škalan and Anda, Elif},
title={Evaluation of Business English Courses According to The English TeachersĄ¯ Views Teaching at GirlsĄ¯ Technical and Vocational High Schools},
journal={American Journal of Educational Research},
volume={3},
number={9},
pages={1085--1090},
year={2015},
url={http://pubs.sciepub.com/education/3/9/4},
issn={2327-6150},
abstract={In our world, being innovated together with developing technologies, the increase in global mobility brought along some differentiations in professional field. Today, together with becoming independent of individuals from their countries and participating in the global mobility, it is seen that the number of lingua franca speakers has been increasing. The necessity of lingua franca requires these foreign languages to be taught through learning objectives of individuals. Accordingly, vocational English courses, which were developed according to the modular education system, were included in the curricula of some vocational high schools in Turkey. This study aims to evaluate vocational English courses according to the views of English teachers working at GirlsĄ¯ Technical and Vocational High Schools (GTVH), which train intermediate level subjects for tourism sector. The study was conducted through interviews with 20 teachers, working at 6 different GTVHs, located in 5 central districts of Ankara. Each teacher was interviewed twice and obtained data were analyzed with content analysis. According to obtained findings, found out that English teachersĄ¯ academic profiles werenĄ¯t built in accordance with teaching skills and necessary in-service trainings werenĄ¯t provided. Modules used during the courses are insufficient and thus teachers donĄ¯t adopt the modular curricula developed through individual learning principles.},
doi={10.12691/education-3-9-4}
publisher={Science and Education Publishing}
}