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Center for Foundation Studies

Center for Foundation Studies

Centre for Foundation Studies helps students achieve the language proficiency necessary for pursuing undergraduate programmes. It also serves those students who are already enrolled in Bachelor’s Degree or Diploma programmes offered by the Middle East College. All programmes are designed to meet practical and specific communicative needs.

Centre for Foundation Studies aims to equip students who enroll in the Foundation Programme with the skills necessary to perform competently in their academic programmes.  On completion of the English courses, students should have acquired the receptive as well as productive skills necessary to perform competently in a non-mother-tongue setting.

  • General Foundation Programme

The department also offers English language support modules to specialist programme offering departments

Centre for Foundation Studies has a dedicated team of experienced professionals who are committed to help students meet the challenges of learning English. The department has excellent labs as well as classrooms equipped with multi-media facilities. The layout of the labs enhances the learning spaces and complements the integration of social interaction in English using Chat and Discussion Forums available on Moodle.

  1. Events
  • MEC ELT Symposium: TESOL in Oman: Innovations, Challenges and Future Perspectives (2017)
  • Over 50 research paper presentations, workshops, and posters
    • participation of 150 ELT professionals from across the Sultanate of Oman
  • National GFP Teachers Gathering (2016)
  • presentations and workshops
  • Participation of around 100 ELT professionals from across the Sultanate of Oman
  • Community  outreach events and activities
  • “Together we Communicate”- an event organized in collaboration with the local community
  • Hospital visits by GFP students and staff: SQU Hospital and the Royal Hospital
  • School visits: Hail Al Awamer Girls’ School & Al Khoudh Boys’ School by GFP students and staff
  • free IELTS preparatory course for MEC staff
  • Arabic courses to non-Arabic speakers  (offered to MEC staff)
  • English courses to the library staff
  • Visit to Hams Al Atheer Rehabilitation Centre by GFP students and faculty
  • Visit to Omar bin Al Khatab Institute for the Blind
  • Nations day
  • English Souq
  • War of words-A debate competition
  • I3 - Incredible Inventions and Inventors
  • R3   Read Respond and Recreate
  1. Innovative Teaching & Learning
  • Online extensive reading through Moodle-Ms. Jawaher received innovative practices award
  • Edmodo as an interactive platform
  • Kahoot and Prop of online quizzing programmes
  • Language learning apps- Duolingo and Memrise
  • M Reader for extensive reading
  • Secretive for e-portfolios
  1. Research and Consultancy
  • CFS Research seminar (2017)
  • Reading and research groups
  • IELTS benchmarking activities
4. Conferences and Seminars

The Centre for Foundation Studies successfully organized the following conferences  and seminars.

  • 1st MEC TESOL Conference - English in National and International Contexts on 29 March, 2018

  • MEC ELT Symposium – TESOL in Oman: Innovations, challenges, and future perspectives on 23 February, 2017
  • National GFP Teachers’  Gathering February 2016
     
  • ICTs and language learning
  • Innovative practices in TESOL
  • Writing across the curriculum
  • Technology-enriched learning
  • English for the workplace
  • English for specific purposes

Dr. Samia Naqvi, HoD
Office: 26, IBR 1st floor
Tel: 24531629
Email: snaqvi@mec.edu.om

Suleiman Al Adawi , Assistant HoD
Office: 5, IBR 1st floor
Tel: 24531631
Email: suleiman@mec.edu.om

Asma Al Aufi, Quality Coordinator
Office: 9, IBR, 1st floor
Tel: 24531611
Email: aalaufi@mec.edu.om