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Mr. Ali Bala, Oxford Quality Programme Coordinator in Fezalar Educational Institutions, gave a seminar about educational systems around the World in Tishk International Career Days. ELT3 year students participated in the presentation. In first part of the presentation, Mr. Bala mentioned about different systems and trends in education and importance of teachers` professional development. At the end of seminar, there were question and answer session. It was very enlightening and useful event for our students.

Academic Debate and Critical Thinking events are prevalent at Tishk International University, and the Council hoping widens their network with private and public Universities of Kurdistan in the future. Debate Competition at Tishk International University is a public speaking event where the Academic Debate and Critical Thinking Council prepare a topic on a range of societal, historic, or popular interest. And in four days each students group prepare a twenty minute speech which responds to the selected prompt. Each major point should be roughly equal to another to keep the speech balanced.  During the discussions Students may consult articles and evidence [...]

Two sessions on “theme based language teaching” workshops were given to third year ELT students by Regional English Language Officer and an experienced teacher trainer, Lisa Morgan. She has been giving teacher training workshops with U.S Consulate. Students were impressed by her distinctive presentation and her passion for teaching.

The ELT department held a poster presentation event on the 30th May 2016 which involved 3r and 4th year students: Internet Linguistics. The event was organized by Dr. Ashraf R. Abdullah. Students were asked to prepare and talk about posters relevant to the aforementioned subjects. With regards to Internet Linguistics, Dr. Ashraf’s students ventured into the virtual world Second Life and built a corpus of data through systematic participant observation. They went on to empirically observe this data and perform linguistic analysis based on what interesting features came up in the language of their corpus. Linguistics topics included speech acts, politeness, [...]

Grammar Game Exhibition was held in Faculty of Education Building on 1 June, 2016. Mr. Ibrahim Nişancı, the lecturer of the TEFL Grammar (Teaching English as a Foreign Language), was the organizer of the event. It was a part of the assessment of the course. In order to make it more concrete and memorable, students were assigned to prepare card and board games for the purpose of teaching English Grammar.  Dr. Suleyman Celik in opening ceremony, addressed to the students; he specified that he is very pleased to see the students actively engaged in the profession of teaching. 72 of ELT [...]