MODEL SUGGESTION FOR APPLICATION AND RESEARCH CENTER FOR TEACHING FOREIGN LANGUAGE TO THE CHILDREN

The education policy of a country is determined according to the requirements of the age. Today, se are in a period that the borders disappear increasingly, individuals began to live together with other cultures more often than before. Anymore, improving of individuals skills in independent learning, multilingualism and multiculturalism are among the primary targets of educational institutions. It is expected to deal with global economic conditions through gaining these competences of individuals via education. In Turkey, in considering of Council of Europe and EU approaches, in achieving these goals set by the political and social conditions, first foreign language lessons in primary schools and second foreign languages in high schools are conducted. The aim of this study is to increase the quality of language courses conducted in the schools in Turkey according to multilingualism conception via recommended “application and research center for teaching foreign language to children”. The work of the centers to be established in the bodies of the Universities is considered as follow: (1) to collect theoretical and empirical produced data on ways literature review, trip or observation within the country or abroad. (2) to detect application problems in cooperation with primary schools, with different techniques (surveys, observations, interviews, etc.), (3) To develop solutions using the collected data. (4) to share these proposals via interviews, seminars, web pages, etc. As a result, via the centers, which will be established, can be seen lack of practice on the one hand, on the other hand, considering practices in different countries or current theoretical data, it can be carried out scientific studies to eliminate the differences. Another contribution of the centers is to provide better understanding of the importance of primary schools by the stakeholders in the educational process.