Foreign Language Educators Association (FLEA)

Foreign Language Educators Association (FLEA) is a national, professional, and scientific non-profit organization of specialists in foreign language teaching. It was founded in 2018. The Association is based on developing and improving of foreign language educators themselves. While they are developing themselves, they also develop their students. The members of the Association are actively working in schools or in the universities so what the association does immediately affects the students they study with. There are 170 members of the Association now and the member number is increasing day by day. FLEA, Foreign Language Educators Association, is a professional and educational association which aims to help foreign language teachers and/or anyone involved with language education to exchange professional experiences, opinions and findings, to follow the latest developments in target language education, to self-develop, and to develop language education by using contemporary scientific methods and techniques. In order to achieve these personal and social goals, FLEA strongly believes that our country needs more qualified foreign language teachers who view themselves as professionals and who can educate citizens of high standards and expectations. As professionals, foreign language teachers will seek ways such as becoming a member of a professional association, attending conferences, seminars, workshops and the like, and following professional journals in order to improve themselves personally and professionally. As FLEA, we published free books for the development of foreign language education, especially for students to benefit from distance education. These books are "Passageway to LGS", which we published to improve students 'reading skills and vocabulary, "YDS Grammar in Details" we prepared to increase students' grammar skills, "Eighteam LGS Test Books" we prepared for students to practice and "Primary Summer" which we prepared for students to evaluate their holidays. Joy, Secondary Summer Joy, Grades 9-10 Summer Joy "are foreign language books. At the same time, we organized webinars to ensure the professional development of our teachers. As an example to these webinars; "eTwinning and Good Examples - Web 2.0 Tools" we have organized to improve teachers' skills in using eTwinning and Web 2.0 tools, "KA120 - Erasmus Accreditation" we have organized to help the Erasmus accreditation process, "KA226-KA227 Erasmus + Projects Seminar” we have organized to encourage our teachers to Erasmus+ applications, "Erasmus+ Term Information Seminar", "Be Extraordinary - Different Methods in English Teaching" organized for our teachers to see different methods in English, and "What is Technofest" webinars that we organize to increase our teachers' applications to projects in different fields. At the same time, as FLEA, we carry out local projects, for example our project "We Are the Future" has received a grant from the Ministry of Youth and Sports. As FLEA, we cooperate with various institutions and organizations for local projects. The mission of the Association is: • To promote education and research on foreign languages • To raise awareness about defend the rights of our members, • To influence the teaching politics related to our area as an effective organization. Our values are: • Respect for human life, education rights and environment. • Solidarity, cooperation, transparency, accountability. • Scientific and evidence based language teaching. • Coherence to ethical codes of conduct.