Problems in Foreign Language Education in the Turkish Education System: Pre-Service Teachers’ Accounts

Foreign language education is a highly controversial issue in the Turkish educational system. Despite innovative reforms done last three decades, achievement foreign far from yielding expected results. It of grave importance to seek for reasons underlying underachievement Turkey. Henceforth, present study aimed at investigating pre-service English teachers’ perceptions about possible problems factoring into education. Adopting qualitative methodology, also intended formulate insider suggestions possibly fix perceived problems. The employed content analysis analyze data obtained through group interviews and structured form. Results pointed role learners, teachers, curriculum social factors as prominent triggering well-established context. offered various implications refinement