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An important task facing education is to present fundamentally new requirements for the training of teaching staff. Flexible, individually oriented teaching and training should be a modern instructor who can provide the necessary competencies for innovative development and develop the creative abilities of students. The study aims to determine the proficiency of English teachers competencies who will teach English based on students’ perceptions. The survey method was used in the research. According to the result obtained from the data collected with the questionnaire, the proficiency of the instructors working at the university, who gave English lessons with the distance education method during the pandemic period, was generally determined as good. In addition, students see the teaching staff’s knowledge and application skills of English Teaching techniques as good. Students also consider the proficiency of the instructors to monitor and evaluate the learning progress in the teaching of English as a foreign language as very good. In addition, the students said that the proficiency of the instructors in the process of teaching English as a foreign language in terms of program and content knowledge competencies is very good.
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Sadıkoğlu, S., Akdağ, Ş., Tezer, M., Khalilov, R. (2022). EFL Teachers’ Competencies According to Student Opinions. In: Aliev, R.A., Kacprzyk, J., Pedrycz, W., Jamshidi, M., Babanli, M., Sadikoglu, F.M. (eds) 11th International Conference on Theory and Application of Soft Computing, Computing with Words and Perceptions and Artificial Intelligence - ICSCCW-2021. ICSCCW 2021. Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, vol 362. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-92127-9_84
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