Do Admission Requirements Matter? A Comparison of the Requirements for Admission to the ELT programs in the Netherlands and Turkey

Qualifications of language teachers affect their students’ language devel- opment and proficiency. Turkish learners’ low performance in interna- tional English proficiency indices requires an investigation of the quali- fications of language teachers from a critical point of view. Without doubt, one of the crucial qualifications that language teachers need to possess is a high proficiency and competency in the target language. However, graduating from different programs in high schools, students are placed in English language teaching (ELT) programs with limited English proficiency. Considerin... Mehr ...