An Assessment of Teacher Training Programs in Public and Private University Foreign Languages Department Preparatory Schools and the Instructors’ Perception and Relevance

AbstractTeacher education has always been a main concern in the English Language Teaching (ELT) domain. Starting from the very beginning of educating student teachers from their freshman year, ELT departments want to show their students who are prospective language teachers the best new techniques and approaches in ELT. Thus, ELT departments design their curriculum according to the latest developments in the field so that their students can benefit the utmost and apply their academic knowledge in their future teaching careers. This leads naturally to continuous learning and development in teachers’ careers. Teacher training programs are held in order to remedy this issue. The aim of this study is to evaluate the effectiveness of these teacher training programs, to what extent instructors who work at both public and private universities benefit from these trainings, and finally attempts to find out if there is any other factor that influences the effectiveness of these programs