Empowering Language Skills (ELS) 

Empowering Language Skills (ELS) Program offers English Preparatory Program students a variety of academic and extracurricular activities to enhance both language proficiency and essential academic skills. The program is designed to foster independent learning, creativity, and personal development. The program includes face-to-face and hybrid workshops and self-paced online modules delivered over a period of three weeks.

The program offers two main modules: Pathway to Academic Success and Language Through Creativity. Each module is delivered face-to-face and/or hybrid and serves a distinct purpose. While Pathway to Academic Success focuses on essential academic skills such as time management, exam preparation, and study strategies, Language Through Creativity is designed to enhance students' functional English through interactive activities like creative writing, role-play, and collaborative projects. The workshop content is refreshed each term based on a needs analysis conducted with both students and instructors, ensuring that the sessions remain relevant, engaging, and aligned with participants' academic and language development needs.

IKU School of Foreign Languages provides English language education to the students of Istanbul Kültür University preparatory class and faculties for one academic year. The students complete the academic year by participating in club activities, preparing presentations etc. in order to use academic and general English effectively with the help of four basic skills (Reading, Writing, Listening, Speaking). 
Students whose department is Turkish-medium can also take preparatory education upon request.

* Remedial Classes

Remedial classes consist of additional courses at all levels offered by the Departmental Instructors for the English Preparatory Class students who need academic support. (4 hours a week)

* Tutorial Classes

Tutorial classes are additional courses at all levels offered by 4th year students of School of English Language Teaching for English Preparatory Class students who need academic support. (Average 20 hours a week)

* Office Hours

Office hours are one-on-one meetings that instructors schedule in order to support students, answer their questions, and find solutions to their academic problems. They are not an equivalent of tutorial or remedial classes. Instructors are present at their offices at the time they have scheduled and announced.  (1 hour a week)

 * Self-Access Center Student Support

It is the additional support provided by the Departmental Instructors to the students who do their online assignments at the School of Foreign Languages Self-Access Centers. (36 hours a week)