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Professıonal development actıvıtıes: A Taste of Russian/French/Spanish


We would like to thank our colleagues Bahri Can Balcı, Oğuz Dündar and Engin Turna for helping us remember what it feels like to be language learners once more, gain deeper insights into the process of language learning from learners' perspective, and hopefully rekindle the joy of studying a foreign language.

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Professıonal development actıvıtıes: HOW CONSCIOUS ARE WE WHILE CORRECTING ORAL ERRORS?


We would like to thank Dr. Gökhan Öztürk for his informative, engaging, and inspiring workshop that helped raise our consciousness on correcting oral errors and encouraged us all to analyse our ways of dealing with errors in the class. Here is the outline of the workshop: Six major types of oral corrective feedback Input providing vs… Continue reading Professıonal development actıvıtıes: HOW CONSCIOUS ARE WE WHILE CORRECTING ORAL ERRORS?

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Professıonal development actıvıtıes: Words ın actıon


In this workshop, Güven Çağdaş Gündoğdu shared fun and productive ways of using drama in language teaching. Here's the outline of his workshop. WARM UP Show Your Value Participants stand in a circle. They come to the center one by one to express what they value most using gestures, mimics, and posture. Others try to guess… Continue reading Professıonal development actıvıtıes: Words ın actıon

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PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT ACTIVITIES: EXPERIENCE SHARING – 1


The topic of our first "experience sharing" meeting was our best/worst teaching practices. We first shared what we felt we were good at and how we created an effective teaching/learning environment, which ranged from classroom management and building rapport to teaching certain bits of grammar and vocabulary. The area where we all felt somewhat insecure… Continue reading PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT ACTIVITIES: EXPERIENCE SHARING – 1

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Professıonal development actıvıtıes: Usıng fılms ın language classes


In this week's professional development activity we had the opportunity to attend one of the well-received workshops conducted last semester. By popular demand, Görkem and Numan kindly accepted to repeat their workshop on using films effectively in language classes. To add to the ones that marked the previous session, this workshop induced discussions on how… Continue reading Professıonal development actıvıtıes: Usıng fılms ın language classes

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AUSFL PDU 2017-2018 FALL TERM ACTIVITIES


Below are the activities that will be conducted for professional development purposes at our school this semester: Workshops: Interactive meetings led by in-house or guest speakers will be held for exchange of information to raise awareness, explore solutions to common problems, and improve teaching skills in line with new practices and innovations in language teaching.… Continue reading AUSFL PDU 2017-2018 FALL TERM ACTIVITIES