1. Language Leader FOCI VIII- İZMİR EKONOMİ UNIVERSITY Handan Bilir
İstanbul Şehir University
SEPP- Şehir English Preparatory Program)

2. In a nutshell… Why we chose LL How we use it- Program philosophy
Course book innovation
How we ensure the book is used in line with the program philosophy

3. Why this book?
What are our needs?
What are our goals?

4. What are our students’ needs?
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? )

5. How can we help students and ourselves in the best way possible?
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

6. What kind of a course book would serve us the most?
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 philosophy_
No CB is an end in itself. They are just tools to reach our educational goals and objectives.

7. Language Leader
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.

8. Example assessment task

9. Another example

10. Language Leader

11. Language Leader
We…
supplement the book with extra materials and reading and listening/note taking books and booklets
somewhat neglect general English

14. An example of how we exploit LL
Cheat sheet-
Students 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!

15. Aims- Cheat sheet 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.

18. Another example… SEPP Corpus Project

21. How do we ensure the book is used this way?
Workshops:

22. How else do we ensure the book is used this way?
Observations

23. for listening