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In 1924 Union of the Education (Tevhid-i Tedrisat) which is a major change took place in the education of Turkish Republic. In the lights of this event Ottoman schools are closed and modern schools founded. Arabic and Persian were removed and German, French and English took their place in the education of foreign language

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At the National Education Summit foreign language teaching was first mentioned in 1943. Every four years, the Board of Education and Discipline organized meetings that discuss issues about education at the national level. Foreign language teaching had a secondary position because illiteracy was a more important problem during the first decades of the Republic. In 1988, a foreign language policy was first established by the BOED.

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Until 1956 only high school which gave foreign language education was the Galatasaray High school. After 1956 under the name of college (later called Anatolian High school) and some other schools under the purpose of testing.

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In 1968 Yenisehir High school (Ankara college) was founded by the Turkish Education Association. This college had given consolidated English education until 1952. After 1952 English education has started. This education method become commonplace and inspired by the Ankara College there were other private schools founded especially in cities populated by students such as İstanbul, Ankara, İzmir and Adana. These private education facilities are founded  because the parents of the students started to be aware of the importance of knowing at least one foreign language and they wanted to send their children to the private schools.

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Compared to the 1974-1975 education year, the number of the Schools gave foreign language education was 12 times bigger. In 1982-1983 this number reached to 23 and in 1986-1987 in 103 Anatolian High schools there were 40.715 students which taught English language along with many other foreign language

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Since the mid 1980s, Turkey has increasingly been influenced by the forces of “globalization” through English language (Robbins, 1996). For international communication (with a commonly known language to meet economic, social and cultural demands), English has become the most the predominant means of interaction. With the effect of globalization, English has had an increasing status in Turkey because it has become the lingua franca of the world

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Ahmad, F. (1993). The making of modern Turkey. New York: Routledge. Bamgbose, A. (2003). A recurring decimal: English in language policy and planning. World Englishes, 22(4), 419-431. Büyükkantarcıoğlu, N. (2004). A sociolinguistic analysis of the present dimensions of English as a foreign language in Turkey. Int'l J. Soc. Lang. 165, 33-58.