English studies in Turkey: an assessment

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dc.citation.epage68en_US
dc.citation.issueNumber1-2en_US
dc.citation.spage45en_US
dc.citation.volumeNumber46en_US
dc.contributor.authorRandall, D.en_US
dc.date.accessioned2018-04-12T13:52:44Z
dc.date.available2018-04-12T13:52:44Z
dc.date.issued2015en_US
dc.departmentDepartment of English Language and Literatureen_US
dc.description.abstractThis paper assesses the present state of English studies in contemporary Turkey. It begins by noting the Head of Turkey's Higher Education Board's admission of the Board's failure to improve higher education. The paper then confirms the Head's position, first finding the acquisition of English language skills to be generally unsatisfactory among students and also among locally educated faculty members. It ascribes this problem to poor language-teaching practice, which tends to rely too much on translation. This paper also notes the misconception of viewing English studies as a domain of knowledge rather than as a field of study. It argues that these problems have global implications and arise in relation to the global history of English studies. It undertakes a detailed examination of T. B. Macaulay's 1835 "Minute on Indian Education," in which Macaulay presents English literature as a new and potentially edifying subject for higher education and a powerful instrument for more effective imperial management. It then places Macaulay's proposal in relation to Gayatri Spivak's recent advocacy of "aesthetic education." The paper shows that English studies in Turkey tends to conform to the Macaulay model, using scholarly articles published in Turkey to evidence the key elements of the argument. The paper ends with a suggestion that Turkish scholars with Anglophone-world degrees may help Turkish scholarship in the humanities approach international standards of quality and achievement. Copyright © 2015 The Johns Hopkins University Press and the University of Calgary.en_US
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dc.identifier.doi10.1353/ari.2015.0013en_US
dc.identifier.issn0004-1327
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11693/38310
dc.language.isoEnglishen_US
dc.publisherJohns Hopkins University Pressen_US
dc.relation.isversionofhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1353/ari.2015.0013en_US
dc.source.titleArielen_US
dc.subjectEnglish language and literatureen_US
dc.subjectMacaulayen_US
dc.subjectSpivaken_US
dc.subjectTranslationen_US
dc.subjectTurkeyen_US
dc.titleEnglish studies in Turkey: an assessmenten_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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