Program Outcomes

Upon graduation, alumni of the Teaching English as a Foreign Language (TEFL) program should be able to:

1. Fluently and accurately use all receptive and productive English language skills at an advanced level for effective daily and academic communication.
2. Make appropriate pedagogical decisions in accordance with their particular English language teaching context (i.e. age, setting, location and learner background) based on a contemporary repertoire of language teaching approaches and methods.
3. Identify and generate solutions for specific language-related problems which learners of English may face at different proficiency levels.
4. Critically analyze linguistic, literary, cultural and historical issues when selecting, developing and using course materials and assessment instruments.
5. With self-confidence, effectively communicate with students and other stakeholders in educational settings.
6. Promote creativity, understanding, cooperation and equity to establish a positive classroom environment.
7. Engage in reflective teaching, self-evaluation, and ongoing professional development.
8. Demonstrate awareness of individual, multicultural and psycho-social diversity in learning environments and adapt to different educational systems.
9. Based on their familiarity with educational sciences, literature and linguistics establish cross-disciplinary connections and develop critical intellectual curiosity.
10. Design, conduct, and report small-scale educational research projects by employing relevant research methods in investigation of language individually and collaboratively with teachers from local, national or international contexts.
11. Analyze and address professional challenges based on an awareness of global systems and comparisons of educational systems.
12. Effectively translate a diverse set of English and Turkish discourses considering context specific elements.
13. Select and utilize appropriate instructional technologies and information literacy skills to increase the effectiveness of foreign language teaching.
14. Develop a critical and multicultural perspective to language and language related issues emerging from global English contexts.
15. Demonstrate proficiency in the analysis of artistic, literary, philosophic or other works in the humanities through discourse or writing.
16. In at least one discipline, describe and analyze the cultural and social context of political, economic, artistic, and/or intellectual developments in the United States.
17. Identify some fundamental aspects of the ideas, history, institutions, religions, economy, society and/or arts of western civilizations and cultures.