English Preparatory Program Courses
Dear Students,
In line with the principles that METU has been committed to for a long time, we provide you with the available opportunities, in the most efficient way possible, to help you prepare for the start of your undergraduate experiences feeling confident that you have reached the level of English required by your departments.
Within this context, in addition to providing most supplementary materials to our students, we basically use the ODTÜClasswebpage, which allows us to deliver course materials to our students in an easily accessible way. We recommend that you make maximum use of all these learning tools and resources, which required a good deal of devotion and coordinated efforts to be created as well as significant time investments. Please select the resources that you really need among all others, manage your time setting attainable goals and finding a suitable method that works perfectly with your biorhythm, and try it out. Please feel free to contact your instructors when you need further assistance. You can also get support from the Self-Access Center on the ground floor of our building or from your instructors. Above all, pay close attention to your health.
Warm regards,
School of Foreign Languages
EPP FALL SEMESTER COURSES
ENGL 011 Beginner’s Level
The initial part of this 400-480-hour fall semester course is designed to equip students with the basic language and vocabulary required for them to practice academic skills. Practice in listening, speaking, reading and writing is provided for language reinforcement purposes. The remaining contact hours are dedicated to introducing students to reading, listening, writing and speaking for academic purposes.
ENGL 021 Elementary Level
This 320-400-hour fall semester course is designed so as to provide students with initial language and vocabulary input during which practice in listening, speaking, reading and writing is provided for language reinforcement purposes. This initial stage is followed by practice in reading, listening, writing and speaking for academic purposes.
ENGL 012 Pre-Intermediate Level
This 320-hour fall semester course is designed to provide students with primarily academic reading, listening, writing and speaking skills. It also aims to improve students’ grammar and vocabulary by reading and listening to written and oral academic texts.
ENGL 031 Intermediate Level
This 320-hour fall semester course aims to teach students the skills of reading, listening, taking notes, writing short paragraphs on a read text, and speaking for academic purposes. Along with these skills, it also aims to improve students’ English vocabulary and grammar.
ENGL 051 ETP (English Towards Proficiency)
This 320-hour fall semester course that can only be attended by students who have received a 49.5 or higher in any EPE in the last 1 year. It has been prepared for students who have an English proficiency close to the English language level required by the university. This course includes exercises for the academic skills that students will need in their first year classes.
EPP SPRING SEMESTER COURSES
ENGL 012 Pre-Intermediate Level
This 400-480-hour course is the continuation of ENGL 011 and takes place in the second semester of the program. The aim of this course is to enable students to reach the level of English where they can follow the first year courses they will take later on without difficulty. In this course, primarily academic reading, listening, writing and speaking skills are emphasized. Also, it aims to improve studenta’ grammar and vocabulary by reading and listening to written and oral academic texts.
ENGL 022 Lower-Intermediate Level
This 320-400-hour course is the continuation of ENGL 021 and takes place in the second semester of the program. In this course, students acquire the English language knowledge required to read advanced written and spoken texts. In addition, this course also includes the academic language skills that students need to reach the level of English expected from them in their first year courses.
ENGL 031 Intermediate Level
This 320-hour course, which is the continuation of ENGL 012 course, takes place in the second semester of the program. It aims to teach the academic language skills that students will need in their first year. These skills are reading for academic purposes, listening, taking notes, writing short paragraphs on a read text and speaking. Also, it also aims to improve students’ English vocabulary and grammar.
ENGL 032 Upper-Intermediate Level
This 240-320-hour course, which is the continuation of ENGL 031, takes place in the second semester of the program. It aims to bring students to the level of English language required by their departments. In this course, it is aimed for students to establish oral and written communication at an academic level by bringing together the language skills and grammar they have learned.