The variables which affect the success in english teaching in schools

Abstract

This research has been done to find out the factors influencing the students’ successes in learning a foreign language (English). In other words; the effects of the methods and techniques, used by the teachers on the staff to teach the choosen foreign language, on the students’ success. The main aim of our study to make the foreign language teaching in secondary and high schools more effective and make it suitable by reducing the educational expences for ones who want to learn a foreign language but not having more Money. In our study ıt has been tried to answer some guestions which are suitable for us to make brief comments on the problem defined by us. We can order the guestions like this: 1- What is the level of the suitability of the contents of the choosen course boks to teach the foreign language and the goals of the second language learning? 2- What kind of language learning activities do the teachers use in the course? 3- How do the aims meet the needs of the students? 4- What difficulties have the teachers faced while designing and preparing their course curriculums? A reliable quastionaire prepared with the help of some experts and according to their poinof views has been applied to the teachers in some secondary and high schools in Erzurum directed by the ministry of education to have the data related with the problem defined by us.