ABSTRACT

The information age with its rapid changes increases the relations between socities and individuals day by day and it makes the socities closer to eachother with the facilities created by itself. This experienced process makes foreign language teaching and learning important and it also provides a direction to countries’ foreign language education policies. Foreign language teaching and learning is a prerequisite for having an active role in multilingual and multicultural world formed by the information age. Information age shows its affects with its all aspects in our country and as a result of this, the subject of foreign language learning and foreign language teacher training in our country gain importance. While discussing this subject, globalisation and foreign language policies of European Union should not be ignored. In this paper, the effects of globalisation and European Union foreign language policies to the policies of foreign language and foreign language teacher training in our country will be discussed.