FOCI VIII- İZMİR
EKONOMİ UNIVERSITY
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Why we chose LL
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How we use it- Program philosophy
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Course book innovation
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How we ensure the book is used in line
with the program philosophy
What are our needs?
 What are our goals?
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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? )
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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
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Academic
academic language
academic skills
Integrated skills
Thematic
focus on a language point, read, listen,
speak, and write under the same theme
Technology integration
our
Our philosophy_
No CB is an end in itself. They are just tools to reach
educational goals and objectives.
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.
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We…
 supplement the book with extra
materials and reading and listening/note
taking books and booklets
 somewhat neglect general English
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Cheat sheetStudents 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 groups
are allowed on this sheet. No sentences!
We’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.
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http://corpus.sehir.edu.tr/Pages/Home.a
spx
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Workshops:
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Observations