In-Service Training Needs of English Teachers for New Trends in Contemporary Methods and Techniques in Foreign Language Teaching

Abstract

The paper tries to unveilEnglish teachers’ in-service training needs for contemporary approaches in foreign language teaching. Designed in descriptive model, this research was conducted to 140 English teachers working in Siirt city. A survey form, developed by the researcher, was used as data collection tool.Descriptive statistics were used for quantitative data and direct citations from participants’ opinions are presented. According to the results of the study, more than half of the English teachers hadn’t attended any in-service training course held by Ministry of National Education [MoNE]. Also, it was revealed that the majority of the participants didn’t have any lesson on contemporary approaches in foreign language teaching during their university education.The frequency of the teachers participating in the research to feel the need to attend an in-service training course on contemporary approaches in foreign language teaching was quite high and theiraverage level of perceived knowledge about contemporary approaches was found to be 1,82 out of 5. It was also found that 75% of the teachers did not find the foreign language education applied in schools contemporary.