Holistic Language Education

One of the problems Turkish education faces today is about foreign language teaching. This problem causes serious handicaps to adapt to modern world, to reach scientific and technological sources and to have global economy. Therefore, solving this problem is crucial for both improvement of education system and scientific advancement of Turkey. Foreign language teaching in Turkey dates back to the Ottomans. It started with Arabic and continued by minorities’ founding their own schools where they taught European languages. The process reached the peak with westernization efforts of Turkey. Although language teaching in Turkey has a very long history, it still has some drawbacks. Although institutional and personal efforts have been made by spending huge amount of time and financial sources, a desired success has not been obtained (Kuzu, 2013).According to Ministry of Education, this problem stems from the curriculum, however, despite the changes; it is difficult to say that there has been any considerable improvement in learning foreign languages. (Demirpolat, 2015: 7).Surprisingly, students in Turkey have approximately ABSTRACT