×
WEB MAIL TELEPHONE DIRECTORY STUDENT INFORMATION SYSTEM COURSES OFFERED DISTANCE LEARNING CAMPUS LIFE LIBRARY PORTAL TRANSPORTATION

Educational Philosophy

EDUCATIONAL PHILOSOPHY

The educational philosophy adopted by the Department of Foreign Languages English Preparatory Unit and the Modern Languages Unit is presented in the following items:

  1. To develop and implement effective education programs that enable students to acquire and develop the four basic language skills (to comprehend what they read and listen to in addition to being able to write and speak) together with grammar in a foreign language;
  2. To contribute to students’ acquisition of the maximum benefits of foreign language knowledge and skills in their education and future professional life by helping them to embrace the importance and necessity of learning a foreign language;
  3. To plan in-class and extra-curricular activities to improve students’ self-confidence in using a foreign language, provide education consultancy services, develop skills of modeling, selecting and using foreign language learning strategies, and to help students to gain the necessary motivation and responsibility to adopt individual learning methods;
  4. To implement student-centered, interactive teaching-learning processes with innovative and creative approaches, and to ensure that students gain and develop their critical thinking and creative thinking skills;
  5. To ensure that students become self-confident individuals who are aware of their own learning, who can select their own paths of learning and adopt continuous learning in collaborative, communication-centered learning and teaching environments in the target language and exposed students to the target language;
  6. To make contemporary, necessary and constructive arrangements of education programs and testing-assessment practices prepared for different proficiency levels by reviewing them annually in accordance with regular observations, student and lecturer feedback, research-development practices and scientific improvements;
  7. To create opportunities for students to access information, educational and learning resources through face-to-face and online applications, and implement the requirements of the digital age and technological developments in foreign language education;
  8. To follow current language teaching resources and practices through domestic and international connections as well as theoretical and applied scientific developments;
  9. To regard lecturers’ professional development as an important part of foreign language education with the provision of any necessary training in line with lecturers’ needs;
  10. To appoint in-unit academic and administrative coordinators who are charged with the necessary responsibilities in the planning, implementation, testing and assessment processes of education and other processes centered on students and lecturers, and to ensure that practices are collaboratively implemented;
  11. To adopt problem-solving approaches that safeguard students’ rights to acquire information regarding their education.