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(Erarslan, 2018, p. 327)
(Erarslan, 2018)
(MoNE, 1997, as stated by Erarslan, 2018)
(İnceçay, 2012, as stated by Erarslan, 2018)

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2000 - UDS (Language Proficiency Examination for Academic Personnel)

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2000 - UDS (Language Proficiency Examination for Academic Personnel)

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Because questions from many fields -not from one specific field- were included in KPDS, a new exam called ‘Language Proficiency Examination for Academic Personnel’ (UDS) was introduced in 2000, and it was a subject-specific test on three fields (Kırkgöz, 2007).

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2005 - Annulment of Preparation Classes 

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2005 - Annulment of Preparation Classes 

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In 2005 school year, "the one-year English language preparation class offered in Anatolian, private and Super English Language High Schools was abolished in order to achieve standardization in ELT in all types of schools"
(Kırkgöz, 2007, p. 224).

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2005 - 2006: English Access Micro Scholarship Program

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2005 - 2006: English Access Micro Scholarship Program

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In 2005 - 2006 teaching year, a teacher training constituent became part of the English Access Micro Scholarship Program, and workshops and training sessions of in-service teachers were carried on by American language specialists for almost 270 Turkish teachers of English course (Kırkgöz, 2007).

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The constructivist theory and student-centered learning  were adopted in 2006 ELTP (Yörü, 2012, as cited in Erarslan, 2018), and learners' equipment with essential communication skills in English  with the requirement of theory about learners knowledge construction was aimed by the 2006 ELTP (Topkaya & Küçük, 2010, as cited in Erarslan, 2018). In 2006 ELTP, there were objectives related to psychomotor domain; however, there were not any objectives related to affective domain although there were some guidance for teachers (MEB, 2006, as cited by Yücel et al., 2017).

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2013 ELTP is also called the 4+4+4 education system, and main amendments were on English language teaching and learning in primary school (Erarslan, 2018). The English classes started to be given in second and third grade in primary schools (Erarslan, 2018), and the hours of English classes in high schools were arranged (Yücel et al., 2017).

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With the new 2017 Curriculum Reform, some competencies including knowledge, skills, and attitude were announced and written with regards to "Communication in Foreign Languages" in the policy paper (Curriculum reform of 2017). According to Diker Coşkun (2017), new 176 teaching programs came into force in first, fifth, and ninth grade levels in 2017 - 2018 education year.

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- Curriculum reform of 2017. (18 Temmuz 2017). Müfredatta Yenileme ve Değişiklik Çalışmalarımız Üzerine... Ankara. https://tinyurl.com/w42oaw6
- Diker Coşkun, Y. (2017). Öğretim programları arka plan raporu. Eğitim Reformu Girişimi: İstanbul. https://tinyurl.com/yz8j28aj
- Erarslan, A. (2018). Strengths and weaknesses of primary school English language teaching programs in Turkey: Issues regarding program components. Eurasian Journal of Applied Linguistics, 4(2), 325–347.
https://doi.org/10.32601/ejal.464194
-  İnceçay, G. (2012). Turkey’s foreign language policy at primary level: Challenges in practice. ELT Research Journal, 1 (1), 53–62.
- Kirkgoz, Y. (2007). English language teaching in Turkey. RELC Journal, 38(2), 216–228. https://doi.org/10.1177/0033688207079696
-  Topkaya, E. Z., & Küçük, Ö. (2010). An evaluation of 4 th and 5 th grade English language teaching program. Elementary Education Online, 9 (1), 52–65
-  Yörü, B. (2012). Opinions of teachers on the eighth grade English language curriculum of primary education: Sample of Eskişehir (Unpublished Master’s Thesis). Eskişehir Osmangazi Üniversitesi, Eğitim Bilimleri Enstitüsü, Eskişehir.
- Yücel, E., Dimici, K., Yıldız, B., & Bümen, N. (2017). Son 15 yılda yayımlanan i̇lkve ortaöğretim i̇ngilizceDersi öğretim programları üzerine bir analiz. Ege Eğitim Dergisi, 702–737. https://doi.org/10.12984/egeefd.305922
- Reference of (MoNE, 1997) was not provided by (Erarslan, 2018).

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