Further to an earlier discussion about whether learning another
language confers a different personality – Here’s an interesting item from the website
of the Turkish Cultural Foundation about a middle school in the USA that has
started offering its students a course in the Turkish language. According to
one student, ‘the course shifted our
perspectives about Turkey and its role in the world.’
TCF Supports Turkish
Language Education in the U.S.
Billings Middle School
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| Middle school students from Seattle, USA visit Aphrodisias, Turkey |
In
2012, TCF awarded a grant to Billings Middle School in Seattle, WA to
support a pilot year of teaching Turkish as a foreign language. The project was
spearheaded by Rebecca Timson, Dean of Faculty of the school and an alumnus
(2007) of the TCF Teacher Study Tours to Turkey.
After
a successful completion of the pilot year in which sixteen 8th grade students
took the class or participated in conversation classes, the school decided to
contiue offering Turkish in the 2013-14 academic year, in addition to Spanish.
Currently, fourteen students are enrolled in the year-long class and more are
anticipated to join for the conversational class next semester. Read
more . . .
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