The “Vocational Training Programme for Employment” supported by the European Union is carried out in cooperation with 36 institutions in 12 provinces, in partnership with the Ministry of National Education Directorate General of Vocational Education and Training and the Confederation of Turkish Tradesmen and Craftsmen. Turkish Language and Turkish Literature teachers from selected the institutions participated to a three-day long Training of Trainers study on “Turkish Speaking Support Programme”, which was held in İzmir between July 27th to July 29th, in order to support learning Turkish as a foreign language by apprentice students and adults with insufficient Turkish language skills. “Turkish Speaking Support Programme” aims to provide daily speaking practice that will contribute to the social integration of Syrians. The certified teachers who are going to conduct “Turkish Speaking Support Programme” trainings in their own provinces, examined the methods and techniques to be applied and carried out studies on measurement and evaluation methods. During the training, the learning-teaching processes were explained with case studies. Prof. Tolga Erdogan and Assoc. Dr. Told by Kaan Büyükikizli carried out the training of trainers’ sessions as the filed experts. At the end of the trainings, a road map has created for the upcoming local trainings along with an evaluation session and participants received their certificates.
