@article{2017,title={A SUGGESTION ON THE SPECIAL FIELD QUALIFICATIONS OF THE TEACHERS WORKING IN TEACHING TURKISH AS A FOREIGN LANGUAGE},abstractNode={Teaching Turkish as a foreign language is gaining importance day by day and Turkish is becoming more and more desirable nowadays. Therefore, there is a rising need for Turkish teachers to work in this field and it is clear that the short - term certification programs opened by a lot of universities in teaching Turkish as a foreign language is trying to fulfil this need. However, it stands out that there is not any standard in the contents of these certification programs. Since there is no separate undergraduate program of the profession of teaching Turkish as a foreign language and the research studies related to this discipline are limited to postgraduate programs, some problems about the implementation process can happen. It affects the quality of education in the Turkish courses negatively.It can be suggested that the teachers working in the field of teaching Turkish as a foreign language should have the knowledge of the special field and the general culture as well as the pedagogical formation (the knowledge of teaching field). It is known that the special field qualifications for teaching Turkish as a mother tongue have been established by the Ministry of National Education but the special field qualifications for teaching Turkish as a foreign language have not been established by a governmental organization yet. In this study, ‘the Special Field Qualifications for Teaching Turkish as a Foreign Language’ were created in accordance with the present special field qualifications prepared by Ministry of National Education. It is hoped that this research should also provide a basis for the undergraduate program of the profession of teaching Turkish as a foreign language, which is planned to be founded in the future. },author={Erol BARIN-- Önder ÇANGAL & Umut BAŞAR},year={2017},journal={International Journal of Language Academy}}