THE QUALITY OF ARABIC LANGUAGE TEACHING CURRICULA IN TURKEY IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE TURKISH QUALIFICATIONS FRAMEWORK

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The European Qualifications Framework (EQF) was released in 2008 by the EuropeanParliament and the Council of Europe for Lifelong Learning purposes. Thirty-six countriesthat are members of or in the process of the membership to the European Union (EU) haveprepared their own national qualifications framework in accordance with the EQF. In Turkey,this framework was prepared by the Vocational Qualifications Authority (MYK acronym inTurkish). The aim of the study was to examine the reflections of the Turkish QualificationsFramework (TQF) on the Arabic language teaching curricula in Turkey. Therefore, the studyinvestigated whether Arabic language teaching curricula released by the Ministry ofEducation Board of Education, Turkey in 2016 and in 2018 were developed in accordancewith TQF. In this qualitative study, the Document Review Method was adopted. The datawere analyzed via content analysis. As a result of the study, it was observed that TQF was notaligned explicitly or implicitly to Arabic language teaching curricula. Meanwhile, in someparts the objectives were incidentally similar to the competencies in TQF, but not the same atall. The study discussed some major deficiencies, and put forward some recommendations inorder to overcome them in the forthcoming Arabic language teaching curriculum studies.