| Summary: | Teaching English in Turkey has its own potential problems due to the lack of authenticlanguage input. Turkey is a foreign language context. This hinders learners in theirmastering English in a short time. Moreover, other problems caused by poor instructionalplanning contribute to this process negatively. With these potential hindrances, the presentstudy aims to seek what other challenges incapacitate primary schools for teaching/learningof English. Conducted with 20 primary school teachers working at public schools in Turkey,data were collected using a semi-structured interview. Results show that poor institutionalplanning is the main cause of challenges experienced by English language teachers. Besidesthis, instructional and socio-cultural/economic problems are the other challenges forteaching English.
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