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Introduction, mission and vision of the Hasan Kalyoncu University School of Foreign Languages, and its English preparatory program.
The Hasan Kalyoncu University School of Foreign Languages (SFL) has been providing internationally recognized, high-quality language education to students since it began offering education in September 2010. At SFL, students study at the Elementary, Pre-Intermediate, Intermediate, Upper-Intermediate and Advanced levels over 4 terms.
With the slogan “Education for Real Life“, SFL connects language learning with real-life situations by creating natural and interactive environments in the classroom. Our school creates a supportive learning environment so that students find learning meaningful, useful and enjoyable.
Mission and Vision
Our Mission
As the School of Foreign Languages, our mission is to achieve excellence in language teaching through the Hybrid education model that our students need both in their academic studies and in their working lives, to inspire them to become citizens of the world, and to keep their continuous professional development at the forefront. It aims to equip our students with a deep understanding of the multicultural exchange of global values and to ensure that they become innovative, proactive, entrepreneurial and digitally literate individuals who can lead their societies with a sense of social responsibility.
Our Vision
In line with our mission, our vision is to be a leading language teaching center that follows the latest trends in language teaching, offers contemporary educational services to our students with a partly digitalized perspective, and encourages them to be autonomous. It is to ensure that students, with intercultural awareness, adopt 21st-century skills and, embracing challenges, become global citizens who can communicate, cooperate and connect with the world.
Features of the English Preparatory Program
The features of our English preparatory program include the following:
- A learner-centered program adapted to students’ evolving learning needs
- Highly qualified and internationally experienced faculty who shape their lessons so that students enjoy learning and succeed in class
- Integration of computer technology into education through computer-assisted language learning
- Carefully selected textbooks and materials
- English for Specific Purposes programs to prepare students for their departments
- Close monitoring of students’ development through an effective advising system
- An orientation program for both instructors and students
- Clubs that develop speaking skills
- A learning environment that supports critical and creative thinking
English Preparatory Program
Hasan Kalyoncu University is a university whose language of instruction is English, and students are encouraged to learn at least one foreign language. Some language courses are offered as electives in departments. At Hasan Kalyoncu University, academic departments are divided into two main groups in terms of language of instruction. While courses in other departments are conducted entirely in Turkish, the 4 departments of the Faculty of Engineering, Political Science and International Relations, International Trade and Logistics, Aviation and Space Engineering, and English Language Teaching use an instructional model in which 30% or 100% of courses are in English. Therefore, students who wish to study in a department whose language of instruction is English are required to take the SFL Exemption and Level Placement Exam if they do not have an equivalent proficiency score in exams such as TOEFL, Pearson PTE and YDS determined by the HKU Senate. Students who are successful continue their education in their own faculties without taking the English preparatory program. Students who fail the SFL proficiency exam or do not obtain the required scores in the exams specified in advance are expected to attend the English Preparatory Program provided by SFL and to successfully fulfil the program’s requirements.
Program structure
At SFL, the English Preparatory Program consists of four terms within one academic year. The first semester consists of an 18-week period. In the first week of the term, an orientation program is organized for all students at HKU. Two weeks are allocated to the end-of-term exam for each level, and 15 weeks to teaching. The second semester consists of a 16-week period. Two weeks are allocated to the end-of-term exam for each level, and 14 weeks to the teaching process.
Levels and courses
In the English Preparatory Program, students receive comprehensive language education at a total of five levels: Elementary, Pre-Intermediate, Intermediate, Upper-Intermediate and Advanced . At the Elementary and Pre-Intermediate levels, students take an integrated skills course supported by writing, listening and speaking courses. At the Intermediate, Upper-Intermediate and Advanced levels, students are given skills-based courses to give them the opportunity to significantly develop all their language skills. Following the skills-based courses, students take an ESP (English for Specific Purposes) course related to their own field of study, to build an educational bridge between SFL and their departments.
Conditions for completing the program
To successfully fulfil the requirements of the English Preparatory Program, a student studying in the English Language Teaching department must complete the Advanced level with an average of at least 70% or pass the SFL Exemption and Level Placement Exam held once a year (at the beginning of the academic year). To pass each level, an average of at least 70% is required. A student studying in other departments must complete the Upper-Intermediate level with an average of at least 65% or pass the SFL Exemption and Level Placement Exam held once a year (at the beginning of the academic year). To pass each level, an average of at least 65% is required.
Preparatory program exemptionInformation on the exemption and level placement exam.