In today’s global world, the
importance of English can not be denied and ignored since English is the most
common language spoken everywhere. With the help of developing technology,
English has been playing a major role in many sectors including medicine,
engineering, and education, which, in my opinion, is the most important arena
where English is needed. Particularly, as a developing country, Turkey needs to
make use of this world-wide spoken language in order to prove its international
power. This can merely be based on the efficiency of tertiary education.
Consequently, English should be the medium of instruction at universities in
Turkey for the following three reasons: finding a high-quality job,
communicating with the international world, and accessing scientific sources in
the student’s major field.
The first reason for why English should be the medium of instruction at
universities in Turkey is that it helps students find a high quality jobs for
students to find. In business life, the most important common language is
obviously English. In addition to this, especially, high-quality jobs need good
understanding ability and speaking in English. Therefore, companies can easily
open out to other countries, and these companies generally employ graduates
whose English is fluent and orderly. For example, the student who is graduated
from a university which takes English as a major language will find a better or
high-quality job than other students who don’t know English adequately. In other
words, the student who knows English is able to be more efficient in his job
because he can use the information from foreign sources and web sites. He can
prepare his assignments and tasks with the help of these information. Therefore,
undoubtedly, his managers would like his effort or prepared projects. In
addition, many high-quality jobs are related with international communication
and world-wide data sharing. University graduates who are in a international
company and business are needed to communicate with foreign workers. For
instance, if their managers want them to share the company’s data, they are
expected to know English. Moreover, they will even have to go business trip for
their company. Absolutely, all of these depend on speaking English;as a result,
new graduates have to know English in order to get a high-quality job, and the
others, who don’t know English, may have lack of communication and be paid less
money.
The second and the most important reason, for English to be the medium of
instruction in the Turkish higher education system is that it enables students
to communicate with the international world. In these days, in my opinion, the
most important thing for both university students and graduates is to follow the
development in technology. For this reason, they have to learn common language.
Certainly, they should not lose their interest on communicating with the world.
However, some of the university students can’t obtain English education in their
university. Unfortunately, these people may lose their communication with
worldwide subjects and topics. In short, they will not communicate foreign
people. To prevent these people from lacking of speaking English, universities’
administration will provide English education to them. In addition, university
students can use some specific hardware and software of computers with their
English to communicate others. For example, the Internet, which, in my opinion,
is the largest source in the world, based on English knowledge and information.
Also, most of the soft-wares such as “Windows”, “Microsoft Office”, “Internet
Explorer” are firstly written in English, and these programs are the basic vital
things for communication over computer. That is to say, even in a little
research about something, they need these programs and the Internet to find
necessary sources and information.
The last reason for favoring English as the medium of instruction of Turkish
universities is that it facilitates accessing information. All of the students
have to do some projects or homework which are related with their field during
the university education. In these projects or homework, they have to find some
information which is connected with their subject. They find sources from
English web sites and books, but they have to replace these data to their
projects. During this process, if they know English, they will not come across
with any difficulty, but if they don’t know, even they may not use these data.
As a result, the student who knows English will be more successful at his/her
project. For this reason, to obstruct possible inequity between students,
management of universities should accept English as a second language in order
to provide accessing information to the students. In short, university students
need to know English to access information.
All in all, the education in universities should be done with English for three
reasons. First, students who know English are able to find their favorite job
related with their field. Second, they can communicate with others
internationally. Third, as a major language in universities, English makes
accessing information easy for students in my opinion, internationally, people
need one common language. For many years, English has been the common world-wide
language, and it will be in the future. For this reason, if you want to follow
trends, new gadgets and technology, modernization of the developing world, you
have to know English whatever age you are in.