DAAD Language Assistant
The German
Academic Exchange Service (DAAD)
is the world’s largest funding organization for the international exchange of
students and researchers. Every year the DAAD sends highly qualified academics
to teach the German language, literature and culture at universities abroad.
The DAAD Language Assistant usually
works for one academic year at the Foreign Language Department at Bilkent
University. There, he or she teaches German on a basic level for students of all
departments. Besides that, the DAAD Language Assistant offers communication
courses on two different levels to improve oral skills, in which advanced German
learners can enroll.
Apart from teaching German, the DAAD
Language Assistant provides information regarding study programs and research
projects in Germany as well as DAAD scholarship options and (university) life in
Germany in general. Whoever plans or considers a stay in Germany can get further
information and advice from the DAAD Language Assistant. Alongside consultation,
an information meeting about higher education, research and scholarship
possibilities in Germany is usually organized in fall on Bilkent University’s
campus in cooperation with the DAAD Information Center Ankara.