Society for International Education

iEARN Centre-Karachi

Program

This program employs a combination of traditional methods and modern approaches of language teaching with special emphasis on confidence development in the initial stages of the course. Students will be able to engage in pairs and groups and get opportunities to speak and express themselves in the target language as they participate in communicative and interactive language learning activities throughout the course work. The coursework includes a great selection of supplementary learning resources, books, and interactive CD ROMs and audiovisual materials.

There will be a range of enhancement activities that would be well weaved in the core language acquisition instead of happening in isolation. There will be organised and structured sessions during which students will be able to engage in dialogues and conversations with peers and experts from United States via Skype and/or Elluminate. The field based activities and projects in Global Youth Service Day, the Digital Photo Diary project, would enable the students to put into practice the use of language for business and communication in addition to developing their volunteering and leadership abilities.

General Objectives:

This program addresses three main areas:

1. English language Acquisition

Students will develop the four traditional skills with a special emphasis placed on oral proficiency. Students will be able to successfully take the SLEP Test at the end of program.

The program will use a range of communicative, interactive and authentic set of activities according to the level of students and their context. The program will focus at engaging students to language learning with a real purpose in mind, with real people working on content that interest them and are meaningful involving native and local speakers of English.

2. Culture

A significant component of the program would be to introduce and give exposure to students with some important features of world cultures and global issues. Students will get an opportunity to understand and respect cultural diversity, individual differences and begin thinking in a more global perspective and can be potential participants in the YES Scholarship.

3. Personal Development

Several components of the program engage students in activities and projects aimed helping them develop balanced personalities. The program would help them acquire a set of skills and knowledge and attitudes to be proactive in their communities and can act as change agents making a difference.