A New ELT Programme and Teaching Practicum in Türkiye: A Space for Promoting Reflective Practice

While ELT programmes in Türkiye have been centrally imposed, they have failed to provide systematic opportunities in the curriculum for promoting reflective practice among EFL pre-service teachers. Despite the growing interest in reflective practice in ELT in Türkiye and beyond, the new 2018 framework does not converge with this interest and fails to promote reflective practice in the centrally-defined language teacher education programme. However, the framework provides opportunities for teacher educators to incorporate reflective practice into their professional practice. This chapter first provides an overview of the undergraduate ELT programme in the Turkish context. This is followed by a discussion of the affordances and limitations of the programme in promoting reflective practice among pre-service teachers during the practicum. This chapter also presents three activities that draw on reflection-as-action (Farrell in Reflection-as-action in ELT, TESOL Press, 2018) and aim to promote reflective practice among EFL pre-service teachers during the ELT practicum in Türkiye.