Why do the Turkish speakers have difficulties learning English?


What are the key factors and difficulties in learning English?

We need two things in order to learn English; time and patience. However, having those two does not mean that we will not have any trouble while learning English. There are many factors at play in learning English. Besides these factors, the Turkish speakers also have varying difficulties learning English specific to them.

These difficulties learning English include the education system, the perspective on English, the overall mentality on learning, and so on. One of the most major difficulty that we are not aware of is Turkish, the language itself. How efficiently we use our language affects our English learning process. In this presentation, we tried to demonstrate the reason of this. Please share your comments.

the Presentation

About Serkan Burak Koçoğlu

Serkan is an English linguist who focuses his studies mainly on language acquisition and education. He is also an experienced EFL teacher with CELTA. Besides teaching, he has worked on several projects including designing an online teacher training system and online foreign language acquisition course. Currently, he is further pursuing his career in South Korea.

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