Admission to the Certificate Course: “Preparing for the IELTS Exam (Academic Module)”
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The Center for Personal and Professional Development and the Centre for Academic Writing of Ilia State University announce admission to the certificate course “Preparing for the IELTS Exam (Academic Module)” for passing the academic module of Cambridge IELTS test.
About the Course
The aim of the course “Preparing for the IELTS Exam (Academic Module)” is to prepare the student to pass the academic module of Cambridge IELTS international exam test. To achieve this goal, a suitable environment will be created, where all four language skills, general and academic vocabulary and grammatical structures necessary for the exam will be consistently developed and refined; The student will get to know the latest time-tested exam tactics and develop the necessary techniques for successfully passing the exam.
All four language skills are closely connected. Learners will easily see that, for example, the words or grammatical forms learned during a reading task can be used in speaking or writing. A circle is formed in which everything is connected. This will be well demonstrated in each subsequent week's session by doing exam-oriented and appropriately formatted practice work called Exam Focus. A Mock Test (all four parts) of IELTS exam will be conducted with maximum observance of the exam conditions at the end of the course. Then, a session will be devoted to discussing the test results and each student will receive individual practical advice.
A certificate of successful completion of the course will be issued based on the appropriate participation in all course activities, the accumulated points and the result of the mock test, which the student can present where proof of B2 level proficiency is required.
Trainers
Trainer - Maia Rogava
Maia Rogava is a Philologist, Professor of Business English and Academic English. She holds international qualifications as a teacher of English as a foreign language and Business English, is a trainer and mentor certified by the British Council; She is an examiner for the speaking section of the Cambridge University International Examinations in English. She has 24 years of experience in creating, managing and teaching different exam preparation programs in Professional English and Cambridge English (FCE, CAE, BECs, ILEC, IELTS). For years, she has been a consultant of the British Council in the English language teaching projects in Georgia, as well as their trainer. She has been working at Ilia State University since 2010. Since 2014, she has been the director of the Centre for Academic Writing, which was created that same year, and since 2018, she has been in charge of the academic part of the English teaching program of the general module. She teaches academic English and academic writing in English to students of master's and doctoral levels at the university. She also directs all Georgian and English programs in academic writing and professional English (Business English and Legal English) teaching programs of the Centre for Academic Writing.
Trainer - Tamar Mekoshvili
She holds a Master's degree in Theory and Practice of English Language Teaching. She holds a Cambridge CELTA certificate; Tamar completed an English language teaching course in London and the second DELTA module in Barcelona. She subsequently completed the third DELTA module with honors. Her qualifying paper was about planning-implementation-evaluation of the IELTS exam short-term course.
Since 2008, she has been teaching general and business English at Ilia State University; Later, she worked as an English instructor at the American University of the Middle East (Kuwait), where she taught academic writing courses to students of bachelor's and master's levels. After that, Tamar returned to Ilia State University as a teacher of general and business English, head of a team of teachers, and also collaborated with the British Council in Georgia, conducting IELTS 60-hour courses at their language center. Today, she teaches IELTS groups at the English language center Lingua Lab; She is also an associate professor at the University of Business and Technology, teaches Business English (C1) course, as well as a one-semester IELTS course for students of master's level.
Information about the Course
The start time of the course: November 7, 2022
Format: online
Duration of sessions: 2 hours
Duration of the course: The course includes 66 contact hours, which are spread over 11 weeks.
Schedule: 3 times a week. Tuesday, Thursday – 20:00; Saturday – 15:00 (Saturday schedule will be confirmed with the group).
Full course fee: 900 GEL
Registration deadline: November 5, 2022
To register for the course, follow the link: https://bit.ly/3yPQF4Y
2022