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      The English for Hotels and Tourism Project, Turkey
      Submitted by TE Editor on 10 November, 2008 - 16:06

      The Turkish Ministry of Education turned to the British Council for help in implementing a project that would help to develop a key area of the economy, the tourism sector.

      Client, stakeholders, partners

      • Ministry of National Education
      • Participating hotels


      Focus
      English for the World of Work: Hotels and Tourism


      The project
      The Turkish Ministry of Education turned to the British Council for help in implementing a project that would help to develop a key area of the economy, the tourism sector.

      The aim of the project is to develop vocational language learning and teaching materials for students and teachers working in Turkey's Hotel and Tourism High Schools.

      These objectives were agreed with the Ministry :

      • developing three sets of support materials for the vocational English element of the Turkish curriculum in Hotel and Tourism (H&T) covering three elements: accommodation, transport and service.
      • setting up and training a core group of materials developers: English language teachers and subject specialist teachers trained in developing materials for content and language integrated learning (CLIL) (integrating English language skills development and the content of the subjects students need to learn). The core group consists of two or three subject specialists and ten English language teachers.


      The project aims to transform the skills of 22,000 students studying in Turkey's 106 Hotel and Tourism High Schools.

      What the stakeholders say


      "The project has brought into focus for the Ministry many of the issues related to English language teaching and learning".
      The Minister of Education, Dr Huseyn Celik, who sees the findings and recommendations of the project as forming the possible "basis for reform of ELT throughout the vocational education sector."

      "I've improved myself and realised my capabilities. We have had many training courses but I feel I have really developed a valuable skill during this training which will have an effect on English teaching in all tourism schools, not just my classroom".
      A participating teacher

       


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