Abstract:

CIPP is a common program evaluation model used in educational studies to evaluate any educational program. This study aimed to evaluate the program of English for academic purposes II given in a Turkish foundation university. Therefore, it was designed as descriptive research. 23 English language instructors participated in the research. The data was collected through the adapted version of a teacher-based CIPP program evaluation scale. The data was analyzed by using descriptive statistics. The findings of the study indicated that the participants had generally positive thoughts about the context, input, process, and product dimensions of the program, but there were some weaknesses in each dimension: the relevancy of the program to the physical conditions of the classes and the students’ English background knowledge in the context dimension; the course book and suggested materials in the input dimension; time allocated to study the theoretical knowledge and do the activities and uninteresting and demotivating activities in the process dimension; the individual needs of the students and not encouraging to study English for academic purposes in the product dimension.

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