Collège de la Sagesse

Adresse

Achrafieh, Beyrouth, Liban

Appelez-nous

+961 1 561 990/1/2/3

Email

direction@sagessesja.edu.lb

The English department guidlines

Philosophy

Language is fundamental to learning, thinking, communicating, and it permeates the entire curriculum. Learning a language promotes international mindedness.
Our graduates are well prepared for professional and graduate study and for lifelong learning.

Mission

The overall mission of the department is to promote literacy-specifically the ability to read, write, and think critically. Literate individuals can gather, analyze, and communicate information effectively, as well as think creatively and draw independent conclusions-skills that are the cornerstone of future careers.

Academic goals

To stimulate students’ interests in learning English.

To provide students with a genuine and purposeful environment to enhance their English Language proficiency.

To adopt a learner-centered curriculum which aims at improving students’ reading, writing, listening and speaking skills, thus integrating the productive and receptive skills. Also, to develop a good vocabulary, pronunciation and grammar of the language.

To provide students with a wide range of learning experiences to use English both inside and outside the classroom.

To promote strategies and attitudes that are conducive to self-learning.

To help students appreciate English Language and culture through the promotion of language arts.

To cater for learner diversity through developing diversified and graded learning tasks and activities.

To develop students’ confidence in using English for classroom communication through collaborative learning, role-play and group discussions.

To develop students’ generic skills through project work.

To qualify every student for entrance into colleges /universities in Lebanon and
around the world.

To promote critical dialogue among teachers so as to improve teaching efficiency.