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TALLINN UNIVERSITYAND TLU LANGUAGE CENTRE

• 11.11.09
• Sirle Kivihall

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TLU Today

• TLU is a public institution of higher education.
• Its main strengths lie in the fields of
  humanities and social sciences.
• It also has a strong and constantly growing
  component of natural and exact sciences.
• And a notable tradition of teacher training and
  educational research.

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TLU Today

• TLU is the third largest university in Estonia.
• It consists of 18 institutes and 4 colleges.
• It has more than 8500 students.
• It has more than 400 faculty members and
  research fellows.
• It is the fastest growing university in Estonia.

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TLU Today - Institutes

• Estonian Institute for Future Studies
• Estonian Institute of Humanities
• Institute of Ecology
• Institute of Educational Sciences
• Institute of Estonian Demography
• Institute of Estonian Language and Culture

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TLU Today - Institutes

• Institute of Fine Arts
• Institute of Germanic-Romance Languages and
  Cultures
• Institute of Health Sciences and Sports
• Institute of History
• Institute of Informatics
• Institute of Information Studies

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TLU Today - Institutes

• Institute of International and Social Studies
• Institute of Mathematics and Natural Sciences
• Institute of Political Science and Governance
• Institute of Psychology
• Institute of Slavonic Languages and Cultures
• Institute of Social Work

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TLU Today - Colleges

• Baltic Film and Media School
• Catherine's College Social Studies and the
  Humanities (some subjects are lectured in
  Russian).
• Haapsalu College Teacher Training, Information
  Technology, and Public Management.
• Rakvere College Teacher Training.

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TLU History

• In 1919, a Teachers Seminar was established in
  Tallinn under the guidance of leading specialists
  in educational sciences.
• In 1952, the seminar was turned into a higher
  educational establishment.
• In 1992, it obtained the status of a public
  university.

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TLU History

• In 1993, the faculty of social sciences was
  established, with departments of sociology,
  government, psychology etc.
• In 1998, a program of computer science was
  opened.
• In 2002, the interpreter and translator training
  centre was established.
• The present TLU dates from 15 May 2002.

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TLU Language Centre

• TULC offers language courses for twelve foreign
  languages
• English, German, Greek,
• Russian, Swedish, Dutch,
• Latvian, Lithuanian, Portuguese,
• Italian, French, Spanish.

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TLU Language Centre

• Our centre conducts the following international
  language exams
• IELTS
• CAMBRIDGE ESOL
• DELE (Spanish)
• PLIDA (Italian) and DITALS (Italian for teachers)

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TLU Language Centre

• TULC is a member of
• ALTE (Association of Language Testers in Europe)
• EALTA (European Association for Language Testing
  and Assessment).

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TLU Language Centre

• TULC has 28 teachers of foreign languages.
• 14 of the 28 teachers work full- time.
• 14 are part-time teachers.
• 13 of them are native speakers of foreign
  languages.

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• Thank You!