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This study aims to evaluate the Certificate of Teaching English as a Foreign Language (CTEFL) programme provided by the Postgraduate Unit, English Language Institute, University of Khartoum, by identifying the students’ opinion on the four modules, discovering the students’ perception of the teaching, and their own performance. In addition, it tries to judge the success of the programme as perceived by the students and ways for improvement. To this end, the study used a questionnaire. The participants were 13 students who studied in cohort 5 of the CTEFL. The results showed that the students found the programme successful since it contained interesting and useful modules. The students were also satisfied with their instructors’ and their own performance.
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Salih, H., Mohammed, A.S.E. (2017). Evaluating the Certificate of Teaching English as a Foreign Language (CTEFL): A Way to Quality. In: Hidri, S., Coombe, C. (eds) Evaluation in Foreign Language Education in the Middle East and North Africa. Second Language Learning and Teaching. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-43234-2_14
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