English Studies Department
The
English Studies Department (ESD), the oldest and largest one at Kutaisi
State University, is one of the widely recognized centres of English
language learning / teaching in Georgia. Throughout its long history, the
Department has always efficiently met changing world standard requirements
in popularizing and teaching the language. The department has trained more
than 2000 professionally competent specialists and is making a great
contribution to introducing and developing new methods of teaching English
in the country as well as performing intensive research in this field.
The
Head of the Department, Professor Madonna Megrelishvili, PhD, has been
leading its work with great responsibility and
professionalism since 1994. Thanks to her tremendous efforts, the Department
has made great progress. It is due to her enthusiasm and initiative that the
ESD has established links with universities overseas which has made it
possible for students to have contacts with different countries and
participate in international conferences. To foster professional upgrading
of the staff, Prof. Madonna Megrelishvili as Head of the Department invites
on a regular basis British and American experts and arranges study visits to
English-speaking countries.
At
present there are more than 1000 undergraduate and 65 postgraduate students
majoring in English. The Department has four professors, eight associated
professors, 17 senior teachers, 20 teachers including 15 MA, 3 labassistants
and a programmer. Seven teachers have been awarded certificates of Language
Development for English Language Teachers by the ETAG and the British
Council.
It is particularly noteworthy that the
department is equipped with tele-communication and language laboratories and
a rich reference room which have consistently proved to be instrumental for
training young specialists.
In
the years of 1995, 1996, 1998, 2000,
2003, 2004, 2005 the British and
American Embassies, the Newport-
Kutaisi Association and the British Council have worked in
partnership with the Department and supplied
the reference room with excellent resource materials.
The project “Technical Assistance to the
English Studies Department” was granted
by the Open Society _ Georgia Foundation
which made it possible to equip the Department
with modern English teaching technology.
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