The Faculty Development Program Strategies and Practices: Selçuk University

Academicians in Turkey are among the groups who have most problems with learning English as foreign English. The Higher Education Council (HEC) launched a comprehensive program called ÖYP (Öğretim Elemanı Yetiştirme Programı) to train prospective academic staff in Turkey, which requires research assistants to get an acceptable score from the language proficiency exams. However, it is also a fact that language competence is another challenge for academicians to carry out their studies efficiently in their academic life. The researchers in this study, who took part in the language education of these prospective academicians, aim to show how performance and competence have interacted during the educational process. The qualified data gathering method was used to present the opinions of both the participants and the teachers. The finding that the participants feel themselves in dilemma between competence and performance is significant in terms of curriculum development.