English Language Teaching in Turkey in the 1960s: Plus ça change…?

The 1960s have witnessed a series of developments that paved the way to tremendous growth and expansion in English Language Teaching (ELT) around world. purpose this article is portray local snapshot ELT Turkey, both as an activity profession, light global trends developments. More specifically, opens with broader look at role status country during period. It followed by examining what it meant teach be teacher time. discussion ends establishing set connections current state context. Finally, argued specific problems (e.g., lack quality pre-/in-service education, recruitment methods practices, physical conditions infrastructure, teachers’ language proficiency, insufficient competency developing/adapting instructional materials, inconsistency terms sustainable mentoring appraisal practices) remain somewhat stable since 1960s.