MISSION & VISION
MISSION
The mission of Abdullah Gul University School of Foreign Languages (AGUSFL) is to attain these three main aims: 1. To get students ready to learn in English By means of its Prep. Program, AGUSFL makes sure that all students who enter an AGU faculty have the necessary knowledge and skill to study their courses effectively in English; 2. To get students ready to work professionally in English By means of its Faculty Academic English Program, AGUSFL makes sure that all students who graduate from an AGU faculty can communicate effectively and function professionally in English; 3. To offer students a third language By means of its Second Foreign Language Elective Program, AGUSFL gives all students an opportunity to start learning a third language that has world significance.
VISION
The vision of the Abdullah Gul University School of Foreign Languages is to furnish students is to ensure language learning not by mimicking tradition but by the practical application of defensible learning principles: 1. Language learning must focus on language USE and Skills work; a student must be able to use English to read, to write, to listen, andto speak. 2. Language level placement must be realistic and detailed. A given student may well be at different proficiency levels for different skills; any student may be better at reading in English than listening in English (and vice versa) 3. Effective learning of language use must connect language learning with learning about the real world, which means that language lessons can never only be about language – they must also contain significant thematic content 4. Learning a foreign language to high level requires considerable, sustained, learner motivation. Language learning motivation is an extremely complex area which resists facile analysis and simplistic solutions – it is NOT just about producing lessons that students find superficially interesting. To ensure language learning motivation, a challenging language program must provide approaches to motivation that are deep and structural. 5. English is useful not because it is spoken by British people or by Americans, but because it is an international language used by hundreds of millions of people outside Turkey who also learn English as a second language. 6. Students have a lot to gain from peer support: academic and social. All students have the potential to help each other; all students feel happier and more motivated when they have formed social connections. 7. Study skills must be taught, and assessed, explicitly for all new university students.