English language testing and evaluation course in English language teacher education programs in Türkiye: Who, what, and how?

ŞAHİN S., HATİPOĞLU Ç.

THE JOURNAL OF LANGUAGE TEACHING AND LEARNING, cilt.13, sa.2, ss.16-36, 2023 (ESCI) identifier

  • Yayın Türü: Makale / Tam Makale
  • Cilt numarası: 13 Sayı: 2
  • Basım Tarihi: 2023
  • Dergi Adı: THE JOURNAL OF LANGUAGE TEACHING AND LEARNING
  • Derginin Tarandığı İndeksler: Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI), Communication & Mass Media Index, MLA - Modern Language Association Database
  • Sayfa Sayıları: ss.16-36
  • Orta Doğu Teknik Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet

Özet

This study investigates the current state of a language testing course taught in Foreign Language Education Departments in Turkiye. It examines who teaches the ELTEC, how course content is determined, and which topics and textbooks are covered. The participants of the study included 21 ELTEC instructors from 13 universities. Semi-structured interviews and documentation were utilized to collect the data. Adopting a mixed-methods research design, the researchers collected qualitative data and employed a rigorous systematic content analysis. Then they quantized the content analysis results to provide descriptive findings. The results reveal that teacher educators often use a textbook-based approach to create the ELTEC content; therefore, it falls behind the recent developments in LTA. The content coverage is heavily summative assessment-oriented with little or no focus on formative assessment and giving feedback. It is suggested that the ELTEC instructors and curriculum developers make qualitative and quantitative changes to the ELTEC to improve the Language Assessment Literacy of future EFL teachers by means of a situated-LTA training approach. (c) Association of Applied Linguistics. All rights reserved