Language Teaching and Learning Workshop
ECO Educational Institute held “Language Teaching and Learning Workshop” on October 19-20, 2018 in Ankara as scheduled in Institute’s Work Plan 2017-2019 approved by the 2nd BoT. A wide range of stakeholders contributed to the thematic discussions in teaching and learning the languages of ECO Member States.
The major objective of the workshop was to shed lights on the challenges of teaching and learning Turkish, Urdu, Persian, Azerbaijani, Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Turkmen and Uzbek languages. Workshop was organized around four major themes each of which was held on a separate session:
- I: Issues and problems regarding the teaching and learning languages of the member states
- II: Best practices and models in teaching and learning languages of the member states
- III: Methods used and or developed in teaching and learning languages of the member states
- IV: New approaches and new technologies in teaching and learning languages of the member states
Academicians, linguists, practitioners (language teachers/students), translater, and language experts with experience or interest in the Language Teaching and Learning actively contributed both written and orally to sessions and shared the language teaching materials within the scope of the agenda. In addition, students from these countries were invited to witness discussions and share their experiences when learning these languages.
Finally, the Educational Institute aims at publishing a policy recommendation encompassing the results of the sessions held during the workshop and updating Member States with the outputs gained through the intensive participatory work.
