(MENAFN - Muscat Daily) Muscat- WCAS English/GFP department is organising its first one-day symposium on 'Approaches & Challenges of ELT in GFP' on December 14 in the college premises.

The event would provide a platform to the faculty members of different educational institutes in Muscat to present, share and discuss their views on different approaches and challenges of teaching English with special focus on the General Foundation Programme.

Dr S L Gupta, dean, WCAS, said, 'This initiative by the English Department will enable a stronger base for English language education and encourage the faculty to amalgamate the diverse approaches and solutions to improve the foundation programme to meet its requirements.

'The symposium will highlight the different methodologies and the problems of English language teaching in the Foundation Course and will generate a knowledge base so that academicians can improve upon the English teaching-learning process,' said Roby Varghese, acting head of the department of English/GFP.

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