English as a Foreigin Language.. A Futuristic Vision

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Vision

Fluent English language Use for All.

Mission

The mission of the center for Developing English Language Teaching (CDELT), Faculty of Education, Ain Shams University is to respond to Egypt's development and employment needs for individuals with high – level English language skills. We work with the Ministry of Education and Faculties of Education as  well as other target faculties in the university to provide the highest quality, world- class English language programs, and English language teacher education for Egypt. This requires setting standards for English teaching agreed upon by the Ministry, university faculties, and other partners across Egypt. It also requires developing programs to teach those standards to ensure that they are met.

The Centre for Developing English Language Teaching (CDELT), affiliated to Ain Shams University and located at the Faculty of Education in Roxy, was established in 1977 to serve the development of English Language Teaching on the national scale. Since 1990 CDELT has adopted creativity as its guiding policy, which is elaborated into a well-planned strategy based on the objective of promoting creativity in the field of English education as part of national and cultural development of Egyptian society. Areas of activity include organizing teacher education and professional development programs for university and Ministry of Education staff, conducting research on creativity in English Language Education, producing academic, refereed journal Occasional Papers, holding seminars, hosting international speakers and organizing the annual National Symposium in March at the Ain Shams University Guest House.

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 CURRENT ACTIVITIES

In addition to organizing the CDELT annual symposium CDELT is currently engaged also in the following activities:

  1. Publishing the bi-annual CDELT refereed academic “Occasional Papers” that cover the fields of language , literature and methodology.

  2. Publishing the annual CDELT symposium proceedings.

  3. Providing English language preparation courses for TOEFL .

  4. Providing Math and Science teaching courses to upgrade their teaching performance.

  5. Conducting financially supported conversation courses for Ain Shams Univrsity undergraduate and post graduate students.

  6. Providing post graduate students with internet access for research purposes.

  7. Adopting a technology-based trend and encouraging EFL student teachers to apply learner-centered and project-based learning.

  8. Concudting conversation courses for undergratue FOE students.

  9. Extending cooperation with national and  international publishing houses for academic purposes.  SHAPE  \* MERGEFORMAT

  10. Extending cooperation with the British Council. The Teaching Kowledge Test (TKT) which has been developed by Cambridge ESOL for EFL Teachers has been adopted by CDELT and, for the first time, applied in Egypt (December 2005 to March 2006).

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  12. As a result of co-operation with The British Council, seminars and workshops are held regularly to raise the teachers' and students’ awreness of effective and spontaneous teaching.

  13. Qualifying TEFL teachers to cope with the 21st century current trends in language teaching.

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 Symposia Held and Organized by CDELT

CDELT has held 28 Symposia as follows:

 

  1. English Teaching in Egypt

  2. Discourse Analysis Theory and Applications

  3. English for Specific Purposes

  4. English for Specific Purposes in Egypt

  5. Language and Literature

  6. Appropriate Methodologies

  7. Testing and Evaluation in English Teaching

  8. Professional Development:  Education and Training

  9. Literature, Linguistics and Culture in Language Teaching

  10. Teaching English:  the Decade Ahead

  11. Creativity in English Teaching

  12. New Policies and Strategies for English Teaching

  13. Global Age:  Issues in English Language Education

  14. Dialogue of Languages and English Language Education

  15. English Language in 2000

  16. The English Language Teacher as Interpreter

  17. The Role of the Reader in English Language Education

  18. Language in the Age of Knowledge

  19. New Guidelines for Child Education in the 21st Century

  20. The Role of CDELT in the Third Millennium

  21. Meeting Challenges of ELT in the Arab World

  22. The Specific Role of EFL for the Arab World:  the Decade ahead

  23. The Language Educator in the Arab World:  Guaranteeing an Active Learning Environment

  24. Teaching English in the Primary Stage: Theory and Practice

  25. Current Developments in English Language Teaching

  26. Literacy and English as a Foreign Language (EFL)

  27. English as a Foreign Language … A Futuristic Vision

  28. Technology and Language Learning: from Theory to Practice

 

The upcoming 29th annual symposium

E learning and Language... the Spirit of Age

 (14-15 March 2009)

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