Language Leader

Language Leader

Handan Bilir İstanbul Şehir University SEPP- Şehir English Preparatory Program)

FOCI VIII- İZMİR EKONOMİ UNIVERSITY

In a nutshell…

Why we chose LL How we use it- Program philosophy Course book innovation How we ensure the book is used in line

with the program philosophy

Why this book? What are our needs? What are our goals?

What are our students’ needs? Students learn English so as to pursue

their academic studies in their faculties. English medium university

Students need to acquire the level of English and academic skills (preferably in one academic year).

Most students are of poor English backgrounds. They start the program as A1 and A2. (one academic year? )

How can we help students and ourselves in the best way possible?

Focusing on academic English and academic skills Integrating the skills in the program Making the program student-centered Keeping a theme-based approach both in instruction

and assessment Benefiting from the educational technology Involving alternative assessment tools besides the

paper-pen exams

What kind of a course book would serve us the most?

Academicacademic language academic skills

Integrated skills Thematic

focus on a language point, read, listen,speak, and write under the same theme

Technology integration

Our philosophy_ No CB is an end in itself. They are just tools to reach

our educational goals and objectives.

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Using LL in the first three levels (low levels) since the start

Enjoying its technological and thematic aspects both in instruction and assessment of learning

Students have group discussions, make oral presentations, do video projects and write in the academic themes studied in LL.

Example assessment task 

Another example

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Language Leader We… supplement the book with extra

materials and reading and listening/note taking books and booklets

somewhat neglect general English

An example of how we exploit LL Cheat sheet-

Students can prepare a cheat sheet bring it to class when they write the

first draft of their process writing task.

Only small notes and lexical groupsare allowed on this sheet. No

sentences!

Aims- Cheat sheetWe’d like to encourage students to… use the concepts and ideas through the

themes; use the language they study

meaningfully and productively; recognize the learning value in an

assessment tool.

Another example…SEPP Corpus Project

http://corpus.sehir.edu.tr/Pages/Home.aspx

How do we ensure the book is used this way?

Workshops:

How else do we ensure the book is used this way?

Observations

for listening