Department of English Language

About:
English Language Department is one of the departments at the Faculty of Education. It was established in the academic year 2015-2016 as a result of the great interest in learning English language and culture, and to meet the need of Koya district to English language teachers. The department is run by eight Faculty members and a department secretary. The department has begun to establish a good contact with the other English departments at the local Universities to make use of their experience and have a promising start.

Vision:
The department's inspiring and visionary activities and instructions include training students with language skills and teaching them with contemporary language and teaching approaches, strategies, and techniques. Also, it seeks engaging students through language teaching practice and encouraging them to get deeply insight into English literature. Building relationship between students' own capabilities, potentials, and competencies with real EFL teaching and learning is another innovative plan that English department attempts for.

Mission:
English Department is one of the newly established departments at Koya University at the Faculty of Education. It aims at teaching English language skills; getting insight into the rich literature of that language; fostering exceptional creative as well as critical writing, and equipping students with effective skills concerned with teaching and learning English as a foreign language. The mission of the department is to enable students to become good readers and creative writers of literary and academic texts on the one hand, and help them to be fluent English language speakers on the other hand. These competences are essential for bringing about successful language teachers. By the end of the mission at the last year of this stage, students are expected to be equipped with the knowledge of language and with the knowledge of teaching.