English Language Teaching

The main program is to train English language teachers for school within the Ministry of Education, university preparatory schools, and private language schools. With the ever-increasing importance of English as an international language of business, tourism, and education, well trained English language teachers are high in demand. Our instructional programme is designed to provide practical skills for teaching. Currently the department only offers a Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree for ELT.

In addition to the ELT department’s Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree, the department, in close cooperation with the Faculty offers students a chance to further their students with Masters of Arts degree (both with thesis and without a thesis) in ELT.

Among the highlights of the department are: highly qualified and internationally experienced staff to make your studies successful, enjoyable and memorable. The integration of computer technology into teaching-friendly and supportive learning environments provides a hands-on experience to apply your skills within the classroom.

The graduates are expected to take up work in the following areas: English language teaching at universities or foreign language schools, English language and literature teaching, American literature, curriculum design, language testing, translation and interpretation, tourism and academia.

Vision:

The Department of English Language Teaching aims to be one of the leading departments that fosters lifelong learning in the individuals to keep up with the current innovations and applications in English Language Education. We envision to empower the individuals to transform lives in order to contribute to the continuously changing culturally diverse societies.

Mission:

Our mission is to equip the learners with high-quality education in the field of English Language Teaching which can enable them to achieve their goals. We aim to create opportunities for the students to enhance the needed 21^st century skills that fosters intercultural communication, critical thinking, problem solving and effective decision making to open paths for them to be a part of the global community.

Learning outcomes of the Department of ELT

The program enables our students to have the needed qualification within English Language Teaching. The learning outcomes of the program have been developed and improved via the departmental meetings attended by all the lecturers teaching in the program in conjunction with the opinions and expectations of the external stakeholders. The ELT programs followed in other institutions were also taken into account while forming and shaping the outcomes of the program.

The learning outcomes of the Department of English Language Teaching (ELT) Program are listed below. Learners can;

LO1 Use their achievements in the courses related to the teaching profession to perform effective classroom management.

LO2 Research and create a report on the social, psychological and personal characteristics and development of students by using measurement and evaluation techniques in accordance with ethical rules.

LO3 Conduct research using basic level scientific research techniques in order to find solutions to the problems that may be encountered in the field of English language teaching.

LO4 Evaluate, apply and interpret concepts and scientific methods related to the field of English language teaching.

LO5 Choose language teaching methods and techniques suitable for different learning characteristics by benefiting from the information they have acquired regarding the different language acquisition and learning characteristics of students due to their ages and learning styles.

LO6 Prepare a daily lesson plan suitable for the course subject, and they can give effective lessons by using appropriate course materials and teaching technology.

LO7 Develop course materials to ensure that students learn language units (phonological, lexical, grammatical units, etc.) and develop language skills, evaluate and use ready-made materials according to student level, interest, and learning characteristics.

LO8 Select and use appropriate measurement tools and equipment to evaluate student development and success.

LO9 Explain the similarities and differences of first and second language acquisition theories, and establish a connection between these theories and foreign language teaching theories and practices.

LO10 Apply principles, theories, approaches, and techniques for the development and evaluation of educational programs.

LO11 Explain the concepts of theoretical and applied linguistics and make appropriate lesson planning considering the characteristics of the target language.

LO12 Use computer software and information and communication technologies at the level required by the field.

LO13 Describe the basic theories and approaches in translation science and the characteristics of different text types. Can translate texts from English to Turkish and from Turkish to English.

LO14 Define the concepts and principles of the field at a basic level in the field of Classical and Modern Literature, analyze and structure the information. Can apply these concepts and principles in the field of foreign language teaching.

LO15 Use foreign language at the levels of accessing information, sharing and producing information in written and oral form.

LO16 Identify and solve problems related to the social environment they live in with the awareness of social responsibility they have developed.