Department of Foreign Language Education
General Information about the Department
Department of Foreign Language Education started education in 1982 and has been training foreign language teacher candidates for about forty years. Currently, the department includes BA programs in English Language Teaching, German Language Teaching, and French Language Teaching. The department also holds an International Joint Undergraduate Program in cooperation with Cortland College at the State University of New York. The department has ten full professors, six associate professors, sixteen assistant professors, fifteen lecturers, and research assistants. The department mainly aims at training competent teachers in the field of foreign language teaching. Within this aim, the students are provided with both theoretical and practical courses all of which are designed under the latest developments in the field of language education. Thus, the future teachers are equipped with the most recent knowledge and skills in Teaching English, French and German as Foreign Languages. The programs in the department have approximately 1300 teacher candidates at the time being and approximately 7000 teachers graduated from the programs in the department so far.
Career Opportunities
The graduates of the Department of Foreign Language Education will work as language teachers in state and private schools in Turkey while some others may pursue an academic career at universities. Moreover, they may have a different career with the help of their high levels of proficiency in a foreign language and their expertise in teaching and learning foreign languages. Some of those career opportunities are translation, tourism and hotel management, banking and finance, international trade, and aviation. Having met the requirements, the graduates can continue their graduate education in the related fields.
Why should international students choose this department to study
The programs in the Department of Foreign Language Education have strong international cooperation within the Erasmus+ student exchange program. In the last five years, approximately 700 students from the department spent at least one semester of their education abroad. The English Language Teaching, German Language Teaching, and French Language Teaching programs in the department are among the top programs of Anadolu University in terms of the number of outgoing Exchange students. There are many international students in our programs, which allow for an intercultural interaction among the teacher candidates in the programs. Besides, the prospective international students will not only have the opportunity to be equipped with the most recent knowledge and skills in Teaching English, French and German as Foreign Languages but also catch a local and universal viewpoint during and after their studies in our department.
Contact Information
Department Head: Prof. F. Hülya ÖZCAN ÖNDER fozcan@anadolu.edu.tr
Program Head (English Language Teaching): Assoc. Prof. Ali MERÇ amerc@anadolu.edu.tr
Program Head (French Language Teaching): Prof. Veda ASLIM YETİŞ vaslim@anadolu.edu.tr
Program Head (German Language Teaching): Prof. Yüksel KOCADORU ykocadoru@anadolu.edu.tr
Address: Anadolu Üniversitesi Eğitim Fakültesi Yunus Emre Kampüsü 26470 Tepebaşı/ESKİŞEHİR
Tel: +90 222 335 05 80 (3520); +90 222 330 54 00
Fax: +90 222 335 05 73