Foreign Language Education Department
History
The Department of Arabic Language Education was established on 03/08/2011 within the Faculty of Education of Adiyaman University in accordance with Law No. 2547 of the Council of Higher Education, Article 7/D-2 amended by Law No. 2880. The program includes compulsory, field knowledge, teaching professional knowledge, General Culture, practice courses and elective courses.
Arabic is a language that our Culture and Civilization have interacted with throughout history. Due to our supreme religion, it has also been part of the language of worship in our society. It has been used effectively in all art fields of Turkish language and literature, Turkish culture and Turkish folk literature. It initiated and influenced Turkish linguistics studies and formed a model for the systematic processing of Turkish. Along with these, he ensured that the socioeconomic and political-cultural relations with the Arab society in history and today intensified. Integration between societies in the historical process has made it necessary to cohesion between languages and caused the relations to continue increasingly until today. This historical and Cultural association has given special importance to Arabic language education today. With this understanding, our department aims to teach Arabic in accordance with today's needs with modern approaches.
The main purpose of the Department of Arabic Language Education within the Faculty of Education of Adıyaman University is to train teachers with modern methodological equipment and necessary knowledge to teach Arabic and Vocational Arabic courses in schools affiliated to the Ministry of Education.
Graduates of our department are trained to meet the needs of the private sector due to intense relations with Arab countries. They can work in all public institutions in parts related to their field. For example, they have the opportunity to find jobs in all ministries such as the Ministry of Culture and Tourism, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Ministry of Finance, the Ministry of Labor, the Ministry of Transport, and in units such as the Directorate of Religious Affairs, the General Directorate of Foundations, the General Directorate of State Archives. They are preferred as translators and interpreters in embassies and consulates. They can do their master's and doctoral studies in the relevant departments of our universities and work as an academician.
Mission & Vision
Mission
Adıyaman University aims to meet the need for qualified personnel in the national and international arena, and develop scientific thinking and research in the sociocultural field. Within the framework of this mission, it is on its way to becoming a constantly advancing University in the field of foreign language education. In this context, the Arabic Language Education Undergraduate Program within the Department of Foreign Languages Education will undertake the task of contributing to language education within the framework of a modern education that can keep up with the conditions of the modern world and in the long run to meet the country's national and international Arabic teacher needs.
Vision
Language education studies are gaining importance every day. With globalization, societies that speak different languages are approaching one, and one feels the need to understand the other. Thus, the education of individuals who can speak the languages of different societies and have the ability to read, understand, write and scientific acclimatise in this language is a scientific, socio-cultural, economic and political necessity. Arabic is a language spoken by a large majority throughout the world. Our contacts with the Arab countries in the fields of science, tourism, economy and diplomacy are increasing day by day. The Arabic language contains information that carries the language of our culture, has deeply influenced our culture, art and literature for long centuries, and helps us to better understand our culture.
Our goal is to provide language acquisition with more current and effective methods and to train equipped Arabic teachers instead of the text analysis and grammar-oriented approach to language teaching that is common in foreign language teaching in Turkey.