At the edge of a global problem entitled corona: The rooted education policy of China

Year 2020, Volume: 6 Issue: 2, 157 - 164, 30.06.2020

İlknur Kazaz

https://doi.org/10.24289/ijsser.738487

Abstract

While the world is struggling with the coronavirus spreading from China, it brings to mind the question of whether it will bring other problems. Of course, it is unthinkable for a crowded and rooted country like China to stop education. Chinese people continue to hold on to life with all their strengths. So what is the reason for this commitment of the Chinese to education especially in Foreign Languages? What lies beneath? Where does Turkey stand in this situation?

Keywords

pisa, chinese education system, foreign language education, language policy, the effects of corona

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