قسم متميز في تدريس اللغة الانجليزية كلغة ثانية

تخريج مختصين في علوم اللغة وطرق تدريسها في بيئة تعليمية محفزة لإكساب الطلبة المعارف اللغوية ومهارات التعليم والتعلم .

. تزويد الخريجين بالمهارات التدريسية التي تؤهلهم للمنافسة في سوق العمل

2. اعداد مؤهلين في اللغة الانجليزية المتخصصة لتلبية متطلبات الجامعة لطلاب الكليات المختلفة

المقررات الدراسية/ قسم علم اللغة التطبيقي

الفصل الأول

الفصل الثاني

الفصل الثالث

الفصل الرابع

الفصل الخامس

الفصل السادس

الفصل السابع

الفصل الثامن

 هذا المحتوى متوفر باللغة الانجليزية حالياً

Course Description and Syllabi

General courses:

Semester One:

Semester Two:

Semester Three:

Listening and Speaking A

Listening and Speaking A

(4 Credit Hours)

Pre-requisite: None

Course Description

Listening and speaking skills are closely intertwined. Since the interaction between these two skills in real time communication is essential for all types of discourse, the listening and the speaking components of this course are integrated.

The listening component aims at developing students’ ability to understand real-life spoken English in both academic and social context through recordings of spontaneous, natural speech which include a variety of voices and speaking styles.

The speaking component builds on the listening input for the purpose of developing speaking skills that help students take part in class and in other academic and general situations.

Course Syllabus

1. The Listening Component:

Students will be exposed to listening input that stimulates their interest and motivates them to engage in class activities and discussion. All the listening exercises should be geared toward helping the students identify and employ listening strategies for different types of listening comprehension situations. This is to be carried out through a wide range of recorded materials (audio tapes or CDs, videos or DVDs) that are carefully selected in terms of their length and level of difficulty. These recordings include varieties of English use such as in the following situations:

• General transactional conversations
• Talks and speeches in academic contexts
• Other listening activities that expose students to a selection of vocabulary and speaking styles used in academic and everyday language

The listening activities introduce students to sound recognition and train them to do the following:

• identify and understand the general topic and signpost language
• identify specific details
• listen for definitions and work out meaning from spoken context
• recognise a wide range of words in isolation and in the stream of speech
• recognise segmental features such as individual phonemes and minimal pairs

1. The Speaking Component:

The listening input is used to develop students’ communication skills. Different types of oral activities are designed to encourage students to engage in productive communication in order to improve their spoken English. Simple, general topics that are related to student’s life should be introduced first to establish confidence among the learners. Topics that may be presented at this level are university life, culture, art, literature, careers and any other topics that enhance students’ ability to understand and comprehend ideas and thoughts, and to relate these ideas and thoughts to their own experiences as students and as members of a larger community.

In teaching listening and speaking, the following points will be emphasized:

• Cooperative learning is encouraged through pair and group work to give students an opportunity to produce spoken language.

• Students are given a specific reason for listening, so that they are able to bring real-life listening and speaking skills to bear on the task.

• It is recommended that students be sensitized to a particular point through a variety of activities before being asked to understand it intellectually

• Recycling of vocabulary throughout the course is promoted in order to bring words back into consciousness through engaging activities

Reading& Writing   A

(4Credit Hours)

Reading

Provides an access to natural life like texts through graded reading tasks.

Develops reading strategies, step by step from skimming to deduction.

Encourages an awareness of different approaches according to reading to purpose and type of texts.

Writing

Develops writing skills clearly and thoroughly from sentences to discourse.

practices writing a variety of factual and creative texts.

Practices and expands vocabulary skills systemically.

Teaches and practices dictionary skills.  

Vocabulary & Dictionary Skills

 (3 Credit Hours)

The aim of the course is to help students to acquire basic techniques in learning vocabulary. In addition to this, the course is an attempt to encourage students to take more responsibility for their own vocabulary learning through using dictionary and glossaries. Thus, the courses focus on acquiring the skill of dictionary as source of words such as pronunciation, grammatical behavior, meaning and use of words in example sentences.

General Objectives

The course aims the following:

Which English words do students need most to learn?

How can we make these words seem important to the students?

How can many needed terms related to each specialization be taught during the first semester in order to provide foundation of language of applied linguistics, translations, literature and general linguistics

The course covers the following topics:

Different kinds of dictionary

Bilingual English dictionaries (Arabic English – English Arabic)

Monolingual dictionaries (e.g. English only)

Native speakers’ dictionaries such as long man dictionary of contemporary English, Collins Corbulid English Dictionary). learners’ dictionaries such as (Cambridge learner’s Dictionary, Oxford Learner’s Dictionary)

 A reference dictionary is organized according to meaning categories. This is generally classed as thesaurus such as Collins paperback Thesaurus.

The use of learners’ dictionaries by providing dictionary entry from different types of dictionary.

3. Specialized vocabulary will be taught through short texts and applying dictionary entries .

English Grammar A

 (3 Credit Hours)

The aim of this course is to acquaint students with English grammar. At this stage, students will learn the following: Pronouns (types and function) Nouns (types, function and form of noun), adjectives (descriptive and proper adjectives), adverbs (types and position), prepositions (place and time), articles (the basic usage), Present tense (simple and progressive), past tense (simple and progressive), simple future and passive voice for the aforementioned tenses).                                                                                                                

Pronouns:A. Types:

• Personal pronouns
• Indefinite pronouns
• Demonstrative pronouns
• Possessive pronouns
• Reflexive pronouns
• Reciprocal Pronouns

1. Function:
   • Subject/object of the verb.

• Subject complement
• Object of preposition

Nouns: Types:

• Personal nouns
• Concrete or abstract nouns
• Collective nouns
• Nouns compounds
• Mass/ unit

1. Function:

• Subject/ object of the verb
• Object complement
• Object of preposition

1. Form of noun:

• Inflectional forms(gender/number)
• Possessive inflectional form
• Derivational form of nouns.

Articles:

• Indefinite articles a/an (with common countable nouns)
• Definite article THE

Present tense (simple and progressive) , past tense (simple and progressive) , simple future and passive voice for the aforementioned tenses)

Listening and speaking B

(4 Credit Hours)

Students in the listening component are exposed to varieties of natural occurring spoken English through listening exercises that are intended to develop strategies for comprehending connected spoken English as used in narrative, descriptive or argumentative texts.

The aim of the spoken component is to develop what the students have started in listening and speaking A. They are to be given a good opportunity to move their communication skills outside the classroom by negotiating and discussing issues as well as situations that resemble real life language use. Thus, students should be taught how to interact, in the target language, with other people in any of the many situations they may find themselves in. The use of role- plays, pair and group work, teacher- student work, media- based material; TV, radio, magazines, video cassettes, etc… is believed to be essential for highly interactive material that promotes fluency and compressibility in spoken English.

It is always suggested that listening- lead- to speaking methodology would promote communication skills and match real-life use.

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Reading & Writing   B

(4Credit Hours)

Semester: Second

Objectives

The course develops systematic development of reading and writing skills. It offers on variety of texts based on real life situations and develops the reading situations skills using these reading skills on a model for written work.

English Grammar B

(3 credit hours)

At this stage, students will be exposed to the following: present perfect (simple and continuous) , past perfect ( simple and continuous) , Future (continuous and perfect), conditionals (real, unreal (present) and unreal (past) , modals ( can, could, may, might, must, have to, need, should, ought.

Course Syllabus

Present perfect (simple and continuous)

• Time expressions
• Stative؛/ active verbs
• Affirmative/Negative/Interrogative

Past Perfect (simple and continuous)

• Time expression
• Contrast with simple past
• Affirmative/Negative/Interrogative

Future (continuous and perfect)

• Time expression
• Affirmative/Negative/Interrogative

Conditionals

• Real conditions
• Unreal conditions (present)
• Unreal Conditions (past)

Wish/Hope

• Present
• Past

Modals

• Can/could (have)

1. ability 2. Possibility 3. Permission    4. Requests

• may/ might (have)

1. permission 2. Possibility 3. Wishes

• must/have to/ need (have)

1. obligation 2. Logical conclusion 3. Necessity

• should/ ought to (have)

1. strong possibility 2. Advisability

• will

1. determination 2. Request 3. Invitation 4. Assumption 5. Insistence

Passive

• With reference to the tenses studied in Grammar I and Grammar II
• With prepositional phrases
• Difference between passive and adjectival phrases
• pseudo passive
• Semantic changes

Articles

Review of the basic uses of articles

• The with mass and proper nouns
• a/an with mass and proper nouns
• zero article with singular count nouns

Adjectives

• Sequence of adjectives
• Comparative and superlative forms
• Derivational form of adjectives

Adverbs   

• Sequence of adverbs
• Comparative and superlative forms
• Derivational form of adverbs

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Introduction to Translation

 (3 credit hours)

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Course description

This course is an introductory course which allows students to get acquainted with translation theories and practice for the first time. The aim objective of this course is to provide students with basic ideas about translation process and the contemporary theories set out by some scholars in this field and to enable them to improve their English and increase their lexical stock while at the same acquire the art of translating from English into Arabic and vice versa.

Part one

What is a translation study?

What is translation?

The translator as mediator

What is a translation theory?

Types of translation

Translation as a process

Cat ford’s translation process

Eugene Nida’s translation process

Nida’s componential analysis of meaning (CA)

Peter Newmark’s translation process

Translation as a product

Methods of translation

The difference between Semantics and Communicative Translation

The problem of Equivalence in Translation

Author-oriented translation

Reader-oriented translation

Text-oriented translation

Part two:

Meaning and translation

Arabic-English language and culture

Culture Aspects (social-religious-ideological-literary)

Denotative and connotative meaning

Collocation

Phrasal verbs

Idioms and proverbs

Passive voice in translation

Translation problems (Lexical, Grammatical, Culture)

Translating English passive into Arabic

Translating English sentences into Arabic

Translating Arabic sentences into English

Part three

The practical part of the course consists of selected graded units of language starting from morphemes, words, phrases, clauses, simple sentences, complex sentences, compound sentences, paragraphs to texts taken from various sources(scientific, literary, religious, journalistic, legal and political).

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Introduction to Linguistics

(3 credit hours)

This is an introductory course in the field of modern linguistics. It covers the basic ideas concerning the scientific study of language as a system of communication and a form of human behavior.

The content of the course:

1. What is linguistics?
2. What is language?

• The nature of language
• Defining language
• Animal vs. human communication
• The function of language

3. The scope of linguistics

• Language and parole
• Competence and performance
• Language structure and language use

4. Investigating language

• The use of intuition
• The use of corpus linguistics

5. A historical introduction

• The early contribution of ancient linguistics
  • The Indians
  • The Greek
  • The Arabs

6. Nineteen and Twentieth Century Linguistics

• Historical linguistics
• Descriptive
• Generative linguistics
• Synchronic linguistics vs. diagnostic linguistics
• Prescriptive vs. descriptive
• Structural linguistics
• Transformational-Generative Grammar

7. Principles and levels of analysis

• Phonetics
• Phonology
• Morphology
• Syntax
• Semantics
• Meaning in context: pragmatics

8. Current issues and other areas of linguistics

• Universal grammar
• Formal linguistics
• Functional linguistics

9. Other areas of linguistics: Psycholinguistics and Sociolinguistics

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Introduction to English Literature

Course Description

This is the initial course in the core of the literature courses which are offered to serve the following objectives:

• To expose students to the creative use of language.
• To provide students with the opportunity to read extensively.
• To train students to acquire an analytical approach to a literary text.
• To stimulate students’ interest in imaginative writings.
• To develop in the students a sense of appreciation to literary work

This introductory course introduces students to the three major genres of literature; poetry, drama and fiction by exploring the different literary elements, devices and features found in each genre and examining these in representative texts.

Course Syllabus

Introduction to English literature is designed primarily to familiarize students with different aspects and forms of literature. Short passages and complete literary works are analysed to exemplify the literary elements in the three basic genres; poetry, drama and fiction.

The main components of this course are as follow:

• Defining literature
• Types of English literature: poetry, fiction and drama
• Defining poetry
  • The language of poetry: symbols, metaphors, similes, etc.
  • Main types of English poetry: sonnets, narrative, descriptive, etc.
• Defining fiction
  • Elements of fiction: characters, plot, setting
• Defining drama
  • Elements of drama
  • Types of plays: comedy, melodrama, etc.

Introduction to Applied Linguistics

(3 Credit Hours)

The course is a general introduction to the area of applied linguistics. It covers the following topics:

1. General introduction to linguistics

• What is linguistics
• What is language
• Levels of analysis
• Definitions
  • Sound
  • Syntax
  • Morphology
  • Semantics

2. Areas of applied linguistics

• Psycholinguistics
• Socio-linguistics
• Language teaching

3. The techniques of applied linguistics

• Contrastive linguistic studies
• The study of learner’s language (error analysis)

4. The application of linguistics

• Linguistics in language teaching / learning
• Linguistics and translation
• Linguistics and literature (stylistics)

All of the above topics are introduced briefly and systematically.

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English Grammar C

 (3 credit hours)

The course covers the grammatical topics such as articles ( the special use of articles) infinitive, gerund , participles, reported speech, nominal clauses, adverbial clauses and relative clauses.

Syllabus

Articles

1. a) The in special grammatical constructions
2. with adjectives used as nouns
3. with gerund or abstract nouns followed by (of) phrases
4. In (of) phrases after words expressing quantity
5. In apostrophic construction

1. b) Special uses of A
2. After such, what used with a singular countable noun
3. After certain adverbs or adjectives- many a , quit a, rather a
4. Before noun quantifiers- a few- a little
5. After so or too +an adjective +singular noun

1. c) Idioms with A and The or no articles

The Infinitive

 a)form:

1. Infinitive with to 2. Plain infinitive

b)Function:

1.subject  2. Object 3. Complement 4. Adverbial

1. c) Other Uses:

1.Verbs followed by the infinitve only

2.Verbs followed by either the infinitive or the gerund and the effect of

   this on meaning.

3.Verbs of sensation following plain infinitive.

4.Omission of the infinitive verb

The Participle

Form:

1.The present (active) participle  2. The past participle

Uses:

1.the continuous

2.The passive and perfect

3.As adjectival (or noun modifier)

4.With verbs of sensation

5.As adjective clause equivalent

6.As adverb clause equivalent

The Gerund

1. a) Function:
2. subject 2. Object 3. Object of preposition 4.complement 5.Noun

 modifier 6. In short notice

1. b) Other uses:

1.Verbs followed by gerund

2.Verbs followed by either the gerund or the infinitive

3.The difference between the gerund and the participle when both are

   used as modifiers.

Relative Clauses (adjectival clauses)

1.Definig clauses, with non-personal antecedent

2.Non- defining clauses, with personal antecedent

4.More than one relative clause in a sentence

5.Relative clauses and antecedents referring to time, place, manner

Reported Speech

1. Statement 2. Questions 3. Imperative 4. Exclamation

a.Types:

1. That-clauses 2 .Interrogative sub clauses 3. Nominal relative clauses
2. Nominal to-infinitive clauses 5. Nominal- ing clauses
3. Function:
4. subject 2. Object 3. Complement 4. Appositive 5. Prepositional complement

Adverbial Clauses

Types:

1. Time 2. Place 3. Manner 4. Reason or cause 5.purpose 6.result or consequence 7.condition 8. Concession 9. Comparison 10 degree

Function:

1. To modify a verb 2. To modify an adverb 3. To modify another clause

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Reading & Writing C

 (4 credit hours)

This course focuses on teaching reading and writing through genres. It considers how different text types and styles help learners to develop their reading and writing skills . By the end of the course , students will be able :

1. To recognize a number of genre types that can be used to devolve reading and writing skills .
2. To identify a number of appropitiate activities and techniques that exploit different types and features  of genre in reading and writing tasks.   

Language Acquisition

 (4 Credit Hours)

Course Description

The aim of this course is to provide an introduction to first and second language acquisition. It presents the main theories of language acquisition and considers the implications of these for language teaching and classroom practice. It also deals with the effects of factors such as intelligence, personality, and age on language learning.                                                                                               

Course syllabus

1. Acquisition
2. Theories of Second Language Learning

• Behaviorism
• Cognitive Theory
• Creative Theory
• The second Language interactions view

3. Factors affecting second language learning

• Intelligence
• Personality
• Motivation
• Age

4. Learner Language

• The concept of learner language
• Types of error

5. Second Language Learning in the classroom

• Learners in Traditional Classroom
• Learners in Communicative Classroom

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Listening and speaking C

 (4 credit hours)

Course description

Listening and speaking C is the final listening and speaking course and for this it is aimed at a higher level of language acquisition. By the end of the course students are expected to have reached the level of proficient language user.

1. Listening Component

This course consists of authentic listening and viewing material that are selected from different sources to stimulate students’ interest in the learning process and at the same time enforce the skills and strategies introduced and practiced in the previous listening and speaking courses. Students should be able to comprehend listening texts and to be able to use the listening comprehension skills and strategies effectively. They are also encouraged through listening to a variety of topics to practice the following critical thinking skills:

• Interpret points of view
• Distinguish facts from opinion
• Synthesize information from different listening input
• Relate listening texts to personal experience
• Classify information
• Compare and contrast different listening input
• Infer word meaning from the listening context.

Language overview and vocabulary development exercises related to the above skills and strategies are designed to facilitate the learning process. These skills can also be applied through oral discussions, oral reports and presentations, writing summaries, and taking notes.

1. Speaking Component

This component of the course aims at introducing the students to a more complex language type and interactive material attention is to be paid to both accuracy and fluency. The principle of complexity is manipulated through exposing the students to the idiomatic use of the language and specialized vocabulary by introducing them to the language of law, science, economics, finance, etc…

Ample time should be given to typical modes of communicating in academic settings. Activities include participating in seminars, scholarly discussions, and debates, plus making oral presentations are vital in this stage. Emphasis should also be on current world time events on the bases of media-based materials.

Phonetics and Phonology

(3credits)

This course is an introduction to the science of phonetics. It seeks to give an overview of the subject in order to equip students with the necessary knowledge which will assist them in their subsequent theoretical courses in the English Department. Students will learn the organs of the vocal tract as well as how sounds are articulated. They will learn phonetics alphabet as well as how to transcribe words as an aid for correct pronunciation. Furthermore, they will study suprasegmental features of English, including stress patterns in words and sentences in addition to intonational patterns.

Syllabus

1. Introducing Phonetics
2. Articulatory phonetics
3. speech mechanism
4. Types of airstream
5. Vocal apparatus
6. The larynx and phonation
7. Articulators of the upper vocal tract

III. The sounds of English

1. Consonant description/ classification
2. Voicing
3. Place of articulation
4. Manner of articulation
5. Vowel classification
6. Cardinal vowel theory
7. Height of the tongue
8. Position of the tongue
9. Lip rounding
10. Vowel length.

1. Transcription
2. IPA symbols and their use
3. Transcription of one-and-two-syllable words
4. Suprasegmental
5. syllable structure/ English syllable structure
6. stress patterns
7. intonation
8. weak and strong forms

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English Grammar D (Syntax and Morphology)

 (4 Credit Hours)

Pre-requisite:

Course Description

It covers the main descriptive rules of English grammar. Then the students’ main task is to apply these rules to different  grammatical operation. This course looks at English  Grammar from a different point of view. It gives a systematic description of English Syntax. It aims at giving the students the tools of describing different structures that they have covered previously and building up a thorough understanding English Syntax. On the whole, this course gives a careful  and a simple account of major areas of English Syntax that will provide a foundation for more advanced work in theoretical linguistics.                                                                                                                                                    

Course Syllabus

The Organization of the Grammar

1. Units of Grammar:

    1.The sentence

2. The clause
3. The phrase
4. The morpheme
5. Syntactic Classes and Function
6. Sentence Patterns

The Verb Phrase

1. The structure of the verb phrase
2. Finite and non-finite verb phrase
3. Verb Patterns: simple and complex; operational and lexical
4. Types of verb complementation:
5. Intransitive verbs
6. Mono-transitive verbs
7. Di-transitive verbs
8. Complex transitive verbs
9. Verb classes in English and their environment
10. Phrasal and prepositional verbs
11. What is a phrasal verb?
12. Types of phrasal verb?
13. Transitive and intransitive phrasal verb
14. Prepositional verbs
15. Phrasal prepositional verbs
16. Di- Transitive- prepositional verbs
17. Mood and Voice
18. Time- Tense- Aspect
19. Meaning of the verb phrase

The Noun Phrase

1. Identifying the noun phrase position and function in the clause
2. The structure of the noun phrase
3. The types of noun phrase: classifying noun structurally
4. Head Noun: count vs. non-count; proper vs. common
5. Reference and articles
6. Number- gender- case
7. Pre-modifiers and post- modifiers

The Pronouns

1. Definition
2. Syntactic
3. Morphological characteristics
4. Classification of sub-classes of pronouns

The Adjective Phrase

1. Definition “Structure of adjective phrases
2. Form and criteria
3. Classification of adjectives
4. Central: attributive and predictive

Peripheral: attributive or predictive

1. Adjectives and other word classes: adverbs, nouns and participle
2. Syntactic function of adjectives
3. Adjectives as nouns phrase head
4. Semantics classification of adjectives
5. Order of multiple adjective in pre-modification function
6. Comparison of adjectives

The Adverb Phrase:

. Definition

. Morphological

. Syntactic function

. Classes of adverbials

. The prepositional phrase

. Definition

. Syntactic function

. Morphological classification

. Meaning of prepositional

. Uses of preposition

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Academic Writing

 (4 Credit Hours)

Course Description

The general goal of the course is to enable students to write coherently in academic English. This will include tasks  to guide students to write  through the process of gathering ideas , organizing an outline ,  drafting, revising , and editing. 

Different paragraphs are introduced in each stage according to discourse function such as   Process and Procedures, Physical description , Narrative, Classification, Comparison and Contrast , and Cause and Effect.

Introduction to ESP

 (4 credit hours)

The aim of this course is to provide an overview of the field of English for specific purposes. It looks at its definitions, aims and types. It also looks at other central concerns of ESP such as language issues in ESP and needs analysis.

• An introduction of to the development of ESP
• Definition and aims in ESP
• Discourse and genre analysis

1. Needs analysis
2. English for business purposes
3. English for vocational purposes
4. Teaching approaches to ESP
5. Testing in ESP

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Teaching Methodology and Strategies

 (4 credit hours)

This aim of the course is to give an overall picture of the traditional approaches to ELT together with more recent development. This course is divided into two parts. The first part is definitions and theory which underline the English language teaching practice. The second part is techniques and application.

The content of the course

1. Terms related to ELT:

• authentic text and task
• choral repetition
• Communicative activity
• context
• controlled practice or guided practice

creative practice or freer practice

• drill
• deductive learning approach
• elicit
• error analysis
• formal instruction
• gist
• inductive learning approach
• input
• information gap activity
• language teaching
• the language syllabus
• method
• methodology
• output

receptive and productive skills

• Second language acquisition and second language learning
• teaching practice

2. Teaching and learning the language

• the nature of language
• the nature of learning

3. Learning theories

• the behaviorist theory
• the cognitive theory
• implications to classroom practice

4.Structuralism in language teaching

5. Functionalism in language teaching
6. Methods and approaches in ELT

• the grammar translation method
• *the audio-lingual method
• the reading method
• *the eclectic approach
• *the communicative approach

7. The language syllabus

Structural syllabus

situational syllabus

functional syllabus

discourse based syllabus

8. Levels of language description

• teaching pronunciation
• teaching vocabulary
• teaching grammar

9. Language skills

• teaching reading
• teaching writing
• teaching listening
• teaching speaking

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Teaching Language Skills

 (4 credit hours)

The aim of this course is to provide an overview of the nature of language skills and to examine the different types of modern techniques used in teaching them.

The course covers the following:

• Teaching listening
• Teaching speaking
• Teaching reading
• Teaching writing

Research Methodology (Theory)

 (4 Credit Hours)

Course Description

The aim of this course is to enhance the students’ understanding and application in some technical aspects of research. Students should know how to choose a topic, write a purpose, make a preliminary outline, prepare a bibliography and footnote entries for different references. Students are also made familiar with the library and its resources for research. Thus students are expected to write coherently and present well organized research papers.         

Course syllabus

• Introduction to Key Terms
• World Wide Web Resources
• Library visit and assignment
• Choosing a Topic
• Using the library
• Narrowing the focus
• Finding relevant books and articles
• Preliminary bibliography
• Preliminary thesis statement
• Preliminary outline
• Plagiarism
• Taking notes (summary, paraphrase, quotation)
• Revised thesis statement and outline
• Format of APA Style
• Format of MLA Style Sheet
• A student’s Research Paper
• Writing first draft

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Topics on ESP

 (4 Credit Hours)

Course Description:

This course aims to provide learners with an overview of the origin and development of English for specific purpose (ESP). Topics will be chosen according to the principles and techniques for designing an ESP course including syllabus, materials, methodology, and evaluation. Then it will examine the role of ESP teacher and the resources to be used by the teacher.  

Technology in ELT

 (4 Credit Hours)

Course Description

The aim of this course is to provide students with information and communication technology (ICT) tools and how to use them in the language classroom. The course covers the following topics:

• Terms related to ICT.
• Technology in language Teaching.
• Using websites.
• How to use e-mails.
• Online reference tools.
• Producing electronic materials.
• E-learning online teaching and training.

English Corpus Linguistics

(3 Credit Hours)

 This course allows the students to be familiar with the origins and history of corpus linguistics.   It establishes   an understanding of the procedures of corpus compilation

             utilizing a variation of corpus tools to do explorations of spoken and written    

             language data.  Students will learn to annotate, analyze, and interpret corpus

             data.

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Course Syllabus

• Origins and history of corpus linguistics ( it shows that many tools used in corpus are rooted in the tradition of the late eighteenth and nineteenth century when linguistics was for the first time claimed to be a real or empirical science.
• Historical linguistics: language change and reconstruction.
• Corpus compilation and corpus types ( this part explains how corpora are collected and discusses the different types of corpus).
• Corpora in functional descriptions of language.
• Differences between parallel corpus and comparable corpus.
• Contrastive analysis and translation theory ( this part presents how parallel corpora facilitate contrastive analysis of English and other languages).
• Planning the construction of a corpus ( it shows what size the corpus will be, what types of texts will be included in it, and what population will be sampled to supply the texts that will comprise the corpus).
• Collecting and computerizing data( it presents how to collect data using various methods such as recording speech, gathering written texts, obtaining permission from speakers and writers to use their texts / how to computerize spoken and written texts for inclusion in a corpus).
• Annotating a corpus. It includes the three types of annotation:

1. Structural markup. (it provides descriptive information about the texts).
2. Part-of-speech markup ( this shows the parts of speech in a sentences. It is inserted by a software program that automatically assigns a part of speech designation ( e.g. noun, verb) to every word in a corpus.
3. Grammatical markup ( this type in inserted by a software program that assigns labels to grammatical structures beyond the level of the word ( e.g. phrases, clauses)

• during the course. The evaluation will be on the written part and the oral part. The oral part will be in a form of presentation.

Intro. to Syllabus Design

 (4 Credit Hours)

Course Description

The aim of the course is to provide an overall view of the nature of course design and aspects to be considered in constructing syllabuses.

OUTLINES

Definition of a syllabus

Curriculum vs a syllabus

Traditional syllabuses

–  Structural

      –  Situational

       Functional/ Notional

Non- Traditional Syllabus

-Communicative syllabuses Based on Content Specification

-Communicative Syllabuses Based on Methodology

Constructing A syllabus

            – Fact Finding Stage

             – The basis For designing a syllabus

              – Objective of the Syllabus

                    -Selection and Organization of the Language Content in a

                      syllabus

Discourse- Based Approach To Syllabus Design

Research Methodology (Practice & Computer skills )

 (4 Credit Hours)

Course Description:

The second course in Research Methodology in the 7^th semester seeks to develop more deeply into the methods and procedures learned in relation to the branches of the faculty, and where ever to apply this aspect of research thought in the foundation course in semester six. Thus, while the foundation research methodology course represents the theoretical part, the practical part is divided into two sections. The first section is:

1. Survey research.
2. types of questionnaire items.
3. types of interviews.
4. Case study.
5. Classroom observation.
6. Error analysis.
7. Discourse or Text analysis.
8. Corpus Linguistics.

The second part of the practical course is to provide students with the basic computer skills and data show presentation.

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Discourse Analysis

 (3 Credit Hours)

Course Description

The main aim of the course is to examine the current developments in the analysis of spoken and written discourse and also to assess the usefulness of those development in the design of materials for language learning. It provides a theoretical underpinning to the teaching of the language skills of listening, speaking, reading and writing.

OUTLINES:

An Introduction to discourse Analysis including definitions, background   and central concepts.

The analysis of spoken discourse and its implications to the design of listening and speaking materials.

The analysis of written discourse and its implications to the design of reading and writing materials.

Literature in ELT

 (4 Credit Hours)

Course Description

This course discusses questions like “what is literature? What are the main literary concepts and terms which a teacher needs to know? It also examines the relationship between language teaching and literature. It presents a pedagogical treatment if literary texts (the type of sentence pattern, the type of vocabulary, the non-core meaning of the vocabulary ) and the impact of this on designing syllabuses and learning materials. The course also looks at ways in which a variety of literary texts, including poetry, plays, short stories and novels, can be used in the classroom. The tasks and other activities organized around them offer generalizable procedures and teachings which can be applied or adapted to different teaching contexts.

Syllabus Design

 (4 Credit Hours)

Pre-requisite: 

Course Description

The aim of the course is to provide an overall view of the nature of course design and aspects to be considered in constructing syllabuses.

OUTLINES

Definition of a syllabus

Curriculum vs a syllabus

Traditional syllabuses

–  Structural

      –  Situational

       – Functional/ Notional

Non- Traditional Syllabus

-Communicative syllabuses Based on Content Specification

-Communicative Syllabuses Based on Methodology

Constructing A syllabus

            – Fact Finding Stage

             – The basis for designing a syllabus

              – Objective of the Syllabus

               -Selection and Organization of the Language Content in a

                      syllabus

Discourse- Based Approach To Syllabus Design.

Language Testing

 (4 Credit Hours)

Pre-requisite: 

Course objectives:

The aim of this course is to provide the students with basic information about testing English as a foreign language. By the end of the course students should be able to understand how to construct ,evaluate and mark a   language test .

• What is a language Test?
• Reasons and types of test. Placement, Achievement, Diagnostic and Proficiency.
• Planning & Designing the test:
• Qualities of a good test.
• Test Specifications.
• Placement Tests.
• Teaching and Testing cycles.
• Achievement tests.
• Testing language components (grammar , vocabulary ).
• Testing Reading &Listening.
• Testing Speaking & Writing.

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 Research Project

 (3 credit hours)

Course description

Students have to write a research paper as part of their graduation requirements in the field of applied linguistics, literature, language teaching, or translation. They apply technical aspects of research writing that had already been studied in the research methodology course.

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Practical Teaching

 (3 credit hours)

Course description

This course aims to help students practice what they have learnt in teaching methodology and strategies to prepare them for their teaching profession. It is meant to provide \students with the opportunity to acquire skills and strategies or techniques to enhance his/her teaching competence.     

Assessment:

The assessment of target language skills can be made up of a range of tests and assignments designed to demonstrate, as appropriate:

• Grammar tests.
• Oral presentation.
• Listening comprehension.
• Essay and projects written in the target language.
• Reading tests.
• Formal unseen examination of various kinds.
• Course work including evaluation of English teaching textbooks and applying the ELT recent methodology in the teaching contexts of the students by preparing lesson plans for teaching language components and skills.