5. Implications and discussion
The findings of this study obviously denotes that teachers interviewed in the framework of this study come up
with their own techniques by trial and error and unfortunately did not receive sufficient academic and pedagogic
guidance from outside sources. They had to rely on their own intuitions in making decisions about the learning
process and often could not vary the techniques and methods they used in their classes to meet the needs of VILs.
Therefore, the most apparent implication that can be deduced from this study is to provide the teachers with the
opportunities for in-service teacher training programs focusing on teaching VILs. When the reasons for the
challenge these teachers face are considered, it is revealed that they had no formal education on how to teach the
learners with special needs in general or VILs in particular during their education on language teaching, neither at
the level of bachelor degree nor as part of the program they participated to get a teacher certificate. Thus,
considering the idea of bringing such courses in the curriculum of teacher education programs can be another
implication and is required to be open to discussion on national and international contexts.