Dear Students
Welcome to the Foundation English School (FES) of Girne American University (GAU).
I am pleased that you are part of our university as Foundation English students and wish you all a very successful academic year 2011-2012.
Our university, as the first university on the island, has always made every effort to ensure an education that is both accessible and excellent. Much importance is attached to the FES, and your well being in this environment. Located in the hi-tech Millennium Building, the FES is dedicated to providing language education using high quality teaching materials and currently practiced approaches, methods and techniques in foreign language teaching.
This booklet aims to provide academic and technical information concerning the FES. Our main aim in teaching English is to bring our students’ knowledge and skills in English to a satisfactory level, thus enabling them to follow their faculty courses and to interact with their fellow students of different cultural backgrounds.
Within this framework, our approach to teaching and learning a foreign language is learner-centred and communicative. In designing our syllabuses at different levels, we follow the guidelines provided by the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages, and aim at bringing our students to B1/B2 level. In line with this, the FES is currently involved in the process of acquiring international accreditation for its programmes through EAQUALS (European Association of Quality Language Services), the leading quality assessor for language programmes in Europe.
This realistic objective can be reached by studying systematically with motivation and cooperation. We are all conscious of the importance attached to communication in today’s global world. We should therefore be able to communicate effectively in a foreign language as well as in our mother tongue. Such an attitude to language learning will undoubtedly contribute to both individual and national development.
Regular class participation, quality dialog, and careful compliance with deadlines for course assignments positively affect examination results. The more a language is spoken, the more it becomes a living entity and is thus produced naturally and with spontaneity. Therefore, having understood the foundation of the language, it is your duty to attempt to make it part of your life.
If you need more information about the FES, please do not hesitate to contact your instructors or coordinators.
I wish you a beneficial and successful academic year.
Prof. Dr. Sabri KOÇ
FES Director