المقررات الدراسية: قسم اللغة الإنجليزية وآدابها

الفصل الأول

رقم المقرر	اسم المقرر	عدد الساعات	الأسبقية
01101	اللغة العربية	3	———-
18111	Listening and Speaking A	4	———-
18112	Reading Comprehension A	3	———-
18113	Writing A	3	———-
18114	English Grammar A	3	———-
	مجموع الساعات	16

الفصل الثاني

رقم المقرر	اسم المقرر	عدد الساعات	الأسبقية
18201	Listening and Speaking B	4	02111
18202	Reading Comprehension B	3	02112
18203	Writing B	3	02113
18204	English Grammar B	3	02114
18205	Pronunciation	3	——–
	مجموع الساعات	16

الفصل الثالث

رقم المقرر	اسم المقرر	عدد الساعات	الأسبقية
18301	تطبيقات لغوية	3	01101
18302	Listening and Speaking C	4	02201
18303	Reading Comprehension C	3	02202
18304	Academic Writing	4	02203
18305	English Grammar C	3	02204
	مجموع الساعات	17

الفصل الرابع

رقم المقرر	اسم المقرر	عدد الساعات	الأسبقية
18401	Introduction to Linguistics	3	———
18402	Introduction to Translation	3	01102
18403	Introduction to Literature A	3	———
03110	الحضارة العربية الإسلامية	3	———
10101	علم النفس العام	3	———
	مجموع الساعات	15

الفصل الخامس

رقم المقرر	اسم المقرر	عدد الساعات	الأسبقية
	Introduction to Literature B	3
	Phonetics & Phonology	3
	Language Acquisition	3
	English / Arabic Translation	3
	Psycho. Linguistics	3
	مجموع الساعات	15

الفصل السادس

رقم المقرر	اسم المقرر	عدد الساعات	الأسبقية
	Teaching Methodology and Strategies	3
	Literary Readings A	3
	Introduction to ESP	3
	Lexicography	3
	Arabic / English Translation	3
	مجموع الساعات	15

الفصل السابع

رقم المقرر	اسم المقرر	عدد الساعات	الأسبقية
	Research Methodology	3
	Teaching Language Skills	3
	Contrastive Grammar	3
	Semantics	3
	Literary Readings B	3
	مجموع الساعات	15

الفصل الثامن

رقم المقرر	اسم المقرر	عدد الساعات	الأسبقية
	Translation Theories and Practice	3
	Research Project	4
	Language Testing	3
	English Grammar D (Syntax and Morphology)	3
	Introduction to Syllabus Design	3
	Islamic Culture	2
	مجموع الساعات	18

  

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 هذا المحتوى متوفر باللغة الانجليزية حالياً

Course Description and Syllabi

Semester System

 

 

General courses:

 

Semester One:

Subject	code	Pre-requisite	Credit Hours
Arabic Language	01101	none	3

 

 

Semester Three:

 

Subject	code	Pre-requisite	Credit Hours
Arabic Language Skills	01102	01101	3

 

 

 

Semester Four:

Subject	code	Pre-requisite	Credit Hours
Islamic civilization	03110	none	3
General psychology	10101	none	3

       

 

Semester eight:

Subject	code	Pre-requisite	Credit Hours
Islamic Culture	02805	none	2

 

 

 

 

 

 

Listening and Speaking A

                                                      18111

(4 Credit Hours)

 

 

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 Comprehension, A

18112

(3 Credit Hours)

 

Pre-requisite: None

This course is based on the view that reading is an active process. It aims at providing students with carefully constructed materials to give them practice to reinforce grammatical contexts covered in other related courses. The course focuses on the following skills:

• Word study

1. Introducing students to the word clues to comprehend the probable meanings, either by using dictionaries or by guessing the meaning from context.
2. To develop and improve reading speed and to help students acquire the rules of word spelling

• Sentence study
  1. To know the form and unit of the sentence.
  2. To examine the relation of one sentence with another.

• Paragraph study

1. To acquaint students with simple information of the paragraph.
2. To give the students practice to answer questions about certain points in a paragraph.

Writing A

18113

(3 Credit Hours)

 

 

 

 

The goal of writing is to enable students to master certain writing technicalities and to write different types of sentences, topic sentences, concluding sentences, short paragraphs, and personal letters to express and introduce their ideas. The course will cover copying sentences, and short paragraphs, dictation and spelling, punctuation and capitalization, connectors and understanding sentence structure

 

 

English Grammar A

18114

(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:

1. Types:
   • Personal pronouns
   • Indefinite pronouns
   • Demonstrative pronouns
   • Possessive pronouns
   • Reflexive pronouns
   • Reciprocal Pronouns
2. Function:
   • Subject/object of the verb.

• Subject complement
• Object of preposition

 

Nouns:

1. Types:
   • Personal nouns
   • Concrete or abstract nouns
   • Collective nouns
   • Nouns compounds
   • Mass/ unit
2. 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

18201

(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.

Reading Comprehension B

18202

(3 Credit Hours)

 

 

 

 

During this stage, the students should continue practicing structured elements that relate to other courses given for the same level in order to help students acquire the basic knowledge needed for comprehension of English of new patterns. The students can examine in a systematic method more complex grammatical context. Reading skills and strategies such as predicting, skimming scanning, and inferring are introduced with practice on authentic academic or general texts. The course also focuses on vocabulary in particular guessing the meaning of unfamiliar words and dictionary skills.

The course emphasizes the following:

• Vocabulary usage
• The sentence study
• The paragraph study

Writing B

18203

(3 Credit Hours)

 

 

 

 

The goal of writing B is to enable students to write coherently in English. This will include the writing of topics sentences, supporting sentences, and punctuation and use translational signals correctly. Different paragraphs are introduced in this stage such as paragraph development by examples, process, description, comparison, and contrast, cause and effect. The students should be able to write different types of business letters and be able to take notes and construct short summaries.

 

Course Syllabus

 

Review of main points in writing A

Sentence structure

Paragraph development

Developing a paragraph from an idea

Unity and coherence

Punctuations

Topic sentence, supporting sentences, concluding sentence

Kinds of paragraphs

Description

Comparison

Contrast

Definition

Cause and effect

CV writing and application letter

Summary writing

Library assignment

English Grammar B

18204

(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

Pronunciation

18205

(3 Credit Hours)

 

 

 

The aim of this course is to develop practical skills in pronunciation areas. The course covers the following objects:

• To distinguish and produce selected vowel and consonant distinctions when reading at the word level.
• To produce both initial and final consonant clusters when reading at the word level.
• To apply appropriate rising or rising/falling intonation when reading aloud stretches of connected discourse.

The course should be connected with the communicative functions covered in speaking. For example:

Communicative functions	Pronunciation points
Greetings and introduction   Requesting personal information   Identifying classroom objects   Describing people at relationship   Narrating events	Intonation in short   Statements; linking   Intonation in WH questions   Questions and echo question   Linking sentences   Prominences   Word stress with special focus on compound nouns; s-endings Ed-endings

 

Listening and speaking C

18302

(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.

Reading Comprehension C

18303

(3 credit hours)

 

Pre-requisite: 18202

By this stage students should be able to read longer texts from different sources and write summaries and reports. This will enhance their vocabulary and understanding of authentic texts regarding current topics. This course is designed to refine students reading skills and to improve their comprehension and critical skills through some authentic academic longer reading selections. Students are trained to understand the writer’s message and to discuss and evaluate the writer’s tone, bias, purpose, and opinion, as well as fact and evidence. Take notes while reading is also emphasized. Both intensive and extensive readings assignments will be considered to encourage students to read.

Academic Writing

18304

(4 credit hours)

The general goal of the course is to enable students to write coherently in academic English. This will encloud tasks  to guide students to write  though 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 Description: Process and Procedures, Description: Physical, Narrative, Classification, Comparison and Contrast , and Cause and Effect.

English Grammar C

18305

(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

 

1. with adjectives used as nouns
2. with gerund or abstract nouns followed by (of) phrases
3. In (of) phrases after words expressing quantity
4. In apostrophic construction

1. b) Special uses of A

1. After such, what used with a singular countable noun
2. After certain adverbs or adjectives- many a , quit a, rather a
3. Before noun quantifiers- a few- a little
4. 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

Nominal Clauses

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

Introduction to Linguistics

18401

(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 behaviour.

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

 

 

 

Introduction to Translation

18402

(3 credit hours)

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).

 

Introduction to Literature A

18403

(3 Credit Hours)

Course Description

Literary Readings A provides students with a brief, yet comprehensive outline of English literature from the origins to the contemporary age. The course moves chronologically through the different periods of English literature offering students the opportunity to study relevant texts of poetry, drama, fiction, while deepening their understanding of those texts by providing an analysis of the social and historical background as well as the biographies of the authors showcased.

Main periods in English literature:

The Anglo-Saxon period and the late Middle Ages.

The Renaissance

Puritan, Restoration and Augustan Ages

The Romantic Age

The Victorian Age

Modernism

The Contemporary Age

Course objectives:

• To allow students to become familiar with the works of the major writers of each period.
• To provide an insight into the social, political, cultural, and literary background of the different periods.
• To analyse the techniques that characterize the writings of the main genres of the periods.
• To select texts that are enjoyable to read and which encourage students to engage in discussions on larger thematic issues involving bringing knowledge from other areas, such as science, art, philosophy, music.
• To establish connections between texts and assess how their meaning changes as students accumulate knowledge.
• To help students realize how the literature of the past has the power to inform their life now and how they can use it to give shape to their experience, thoughts, and aspirations.

 

 

Introduction to Literature B

18501

(3 Credit Hours)

 

Course Description

Introduction to Literature B is a course designed to introduce students to the study of a variety of literary works pertaining the genre of fiction. This course considers issues of narrative form, structure, technique and style in the short story, the novella, and the novel. A variety of narrative texts will be studied to highlight literary development along with focusing on historic, cultural, structural, psychological, political, philosophic, and linguistic contexts by applying contemporary literary theory to the texts. In this course the focus will be on both the study of the elements of fiction and on a broader framework for analyzing, interpreting, and evaluating narrative texts.

Firstly, a distinction will be drawn between Story and Discourse (also between Story or Fabula and Plot). Then several other aspects will be taken into consideration: Narration, Focalisation, Narrative Modes: (Showing/Telling: Speech, Report, Description, Comment).

Narrative Levels: Matrix Narratives, Embedded Narratives and their functions: actional integration, exposition, distraction, obstruction/retardation, analogy, mise en abyme.

Setting and fictional space: Atmosphere, Space and Character, Space and Plot, Symbolic Space.

Time: 1)Tense, 2)Order: Beginnings: Ab Ovo, In Medias Res, In Ultimas Res; Analepsis/Prolepsis;3)Suspense;4) Open/Closed Endings; 5) Duration; 6) Frequency.

Characterization: Narratorial/Figural, Explicit/Implicit, Self/Altero-characterisation; Block characterization; Flat/Round Characters. Different character function: Main/Minor; Protagonist/Antagonist; Hero/Villain; Confidant, Foil, Witness, Chorus characters.

Course objectives:

 

• To equip students with a vocabulary of literary terms for the genre of fiction.
• Identify and define the major elements of fiction.
• Recognize story-telling techniques that allow fiction writers to successfully achieve desired effects, and to learn the vocabulary that is helpful in reading, discussing and writing about the texts object of study.
• Trace the historical development of fiction.
• Read, evaluate, and interpret all texts assigned.
• Apply a variety of critical theories to narrative texts read throughout the semester.

 

Phonetics and Phonology

18502

(3 credit hours)

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

 

 

Language Acquisition

18503

(3 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

 

 

E/A Translation

18504

 (3 Credit Hours)

Course Description

This practical translation course is a prerequisite for the theoretical course introduction to translation studies. Therefore, its main is to put theory into practice by rendering authentic English texts into Arabic. Class assignments focus on the process and quality of translation with emphasis on the differences in the two cultures. Exercises will provide translation practice with different types of texts in various fields of discourse. Students will work on solving stylistic, syntactic, cultural, terminological, and technical problems encountered in the Arabic-English process.

Objectives of the Course

• To familiarize students with translation and its uses in professional life.
• To enhance students’ confidence in both English and Arabic languages through contextualized translation practice.
• To study and practice the basic techniques for obtaining a clear translation that is faithful to the original English text and correctly expressed in Arabic as the target language.
• To develop a high standard of professionalism through knowledge of the translation field, its business practices, social issues, and code of ethics.

3. Teaching Methodology

• – practical classes (workshops)
• – Sessions devoted to discussion of translation process.
• – Tutorial sessions

 

Psycholinguistics

18505

(3 Credit Hours)

Course description:

 

Psycholinguistics is an interdisciplinary field of study in which the goals are to understand how people acquire language, how people use language to speak and understand one another, and how language is represented and processed in the brain. Psycholinguistics, also known as the psychology of language, is primarily a sub-discipline of psychology and linguistics, but it is also related to developmental psychology, cognitive psychology, neurolinguistics, and speech science. It is the study of the psychological and neurobiological factors that enable humans to acquire, comprehend and produce language. Psycholinguistics examines the cognitive processes that make it possible to generate a grammatical and meaningful sentence.

Credit Units:        2 units

Contact hours:     2 hour lecture once a week

Prerequisite:        20452

Placement   6th semester

Course Objectives

At the end of the course, students are expected to:

1. define psycholinguistics;
2. discuss the origins of the field of psycholinguistics;
3. state the processes involved in psycholinguistic inquiry;
4. examine the nature of language;
5. discuss the processes involved in the comprehension of speech;
6. determine the processes involved in the production of speech;
7. explain the language acquisition process;
8. examine how languages can be lost;
9. outline some important processes that characterize the working of the human mind; and

• link the human mind with linguistic performance as expressed through linguistics choices.

Course Outline

1. Language Acquisition
2. First words
3. The birth of grammar
4. Evidence for innateness
5. Stages of linguistics development
6. Production of language
7. Conceptualization
8. Formulation
9. Articulation
10. Self-monitoring

III. Comprehension of language

1. Sounds
2. Words
3. Sentences
4. Texts
5. Dissolution: language loss
6. Neurolinguistics and language loss
7. Speech and language disorders

Methods of Instruction: Lectures, class discussions, and individual student presentation of a seminal article in the field.

Nature of Evaluation: Theoretical

Method of Assessment

         Student assignments & presentation    10%

         Midterm Examination                       30%

         Final Examination                   60%

 

Recommended Text: Scovel, Thomas (1998) Psycholinguistics. Oxford: Oxford University Press

 

Teaching Methodology and Strategies

18601

(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

Lit. Readings A

18602

(3 Credit Hours)

 

Course description:

 

Literary Readings A provides students with a brief, yet comprehensive outline of English literature from the origins to the contemporary age. The course moves chronologically through the different periods of English literature offering students the opportunity to study relevant texts of poetry, drama, fiction, while deepening their understanding of those texts by providing an analysis of the social and historical background as well as the biographies of the authors showcased.

Main periods in English literature:

The Anglo-Saxon period and the late Middle Ages.

The Renaissance

Puritan, Restoration and Augustan Ages

The Romantic Age

The Victorian Age

Modernism

The Contemporary Age

Course objectives:

• To allow students to become familiar with the works of the major writers of each period.
• To provide an insight into the social, political, cultural, and literary background of the different periods.
• To analyse the techniques that characterize the writings of the main genres of the periods.
• To select texts that are enjoyable to read and which encourage students to engage in discussions on larger thematic issues involving bringing knowledge from other areas, such as science, art, philosophy, music.
• To establish connections between texts and assess how their meaning changes as students accumulate knowledge.

To help students realize how the literature of the past has the power to inform their life now and how they can use it to give shape to their experience, thoughts, and aspirations.

 

Introduction to ESP

18603

(3 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

Lexicography

18604

(3 credit hours)

 

 

Course Description

 

This course is an accessible introduction to lexicography – the study of dictionaries. We rely on dictionaries to provide us with definitions of words, and to tell us how to spell them. They are used at home and at school, cited in law courts, sermons and parliament, and referred to by crossword addicts and scrabble players alike. But why are dictionaries structured as they are? What types of dictionary exist, and what purposes do they serve? Who uses a dictionary, and for what? Lexicography: An Introduction provides a detailed overview of the history, types and content of these essential reference works. This course is also includes a wide range of dictionaries, from those for native speakers to thematic dictionaries and learners’ dictionaries, including those on CD-ROM, to reveal the ways in which dictionaries fulfil their dual function of describing the vocabulary of English and providing a useful and accessible reference resource.

Beginning with an introduction to the terms used in lexicology to describe words and vocabulary, and offering summaries and suggestions for further reading, Lexicography: An Introduction is concise and student-friendly. It is ideal for anyone with an interest in the development and use of dictionaries.

Course Outline

Introduction and Dictionary cited

1 Words

1.2 What is a word?

1.3 Same sound, same spelling, different word

1.4 Lexemes and variants

1.5 Classifying words

1.6 Taking words to pieces

2 Facts about words

2.1 Where English words come from?

2.2 Making new words

2.2.1Compounds

2.2.2 Derivatives

2.2.3 Loanwords

3 Word meaning

3.1 Reference

3.2 Connotation

3.3 Sense relations

3.4 Collocation

4 Describing words

4.1 The dictionary

4.2 What is a dictionary?

4.2 Dictionaries, not ‘the dictionary’

 

 

 

A/E Translation

18605

(3 credit hours)

 

Course Description

 

This practical translation course is designed to follow up the theoretical course introduction to translation studies and the practical one translation English-Arabic. Therefore, its main is to put theory into practice by rendering authentic Arabic texts into English from varies text-types and fields of discourse. This course introduces the basic techniques of English-Arabic translation. Class assignments focus on the process and quality of translation with emphasis on the differences in the two cultures. Exercises will provide translation practice with different types of texts in various fields of discourse. Students will work on solving stylistic, syntactic, cultural, terminological, and technical problems encountered in the Arabic-English process.

Objectives Objective of the Course

• To familiarize students with translation and its uses in professional life.
• To enhance students’ confidence in both English and Arabic languages through contextualized translation practice.
• To study and practice the basic techniques for obtaining a clear translation that is faithful to the original Arabic text and correctly expressed in English as the target language.
• To develop a high standard of professionalism through knowledge of the translation field, its business practices, social issues, and code of ethics.

3. Teaching Methodology

• – practical classes (workshops)
• – Sessions devoted to discussion of translation process.
• – Tutorial sessions

Research Methodology

18701

(3 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. Writing III is a prerequisite. 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

Teaching Language Skills

18702

(3 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 covering the following:

Teaching listening

Teaching speaking

Teaching reading

Teaching writing

Contrastive Grammar

18703

(3 Credit Hours)

The course aims at teaching students the similarities and differences between English and Arabic grammar via contrastive analysis. Students should be familiar with purpose and methods of contrastive grammar regarding parts of speech types of sentences, coordination and subordination, the verb phrase and the noun phrase ( type and structure). The course should embody both the theoretical and practical part

Semantics

18704

 (3 Credit Hours)

 

Course Description

 

This course of semantics has been carefully planned to introduce students to all the main elements of semantics in a simple step by step fashion. Students begin by discovering the values and fascination of studying semantics and move on to such topics as sense and reference, basic sense relations, simple logic, word meaning, and interpersonal meaning. This course meets the needs of those who will develop their skills in the field of the study of meaning.

Course Syllabus

1. Basic ideas in semantics

• About semantics
• Sentences, utterances, and propositions
• Reference and sense

2. From reference

• Referring expressions
• Predicates
• Universe of discourse
• Deixis and definiteness
• Words and thing: extensions and prototypes

3. Sense

• Sense properties and stereotype
• Sense relations

4. Logic

• About logic
• A notion of simple propositions
• Connectives

 

Lit. Readings B

18705

(3 Credit Hours)

 

This is a survey of the main literature genres in American literature (poetry, fiction and drama) from the beginnings to the late 20^th century.   A general treatment covers major authors and their work in a historical context with selections from such works.

Translation theories and practice

18801

(3 Credit Hours)

 

 

Course Description

 

This course is a further development of the basic course “Introduction to Translation”. Throughout this course, students will be exposed to some contemporary translation models, methods, approaches and theories. The aim of this course is to narrow the gap between theory and practice in translation. Discourse analysis will be introduced through the study of the Text Linguistic Model. By the end of the course, students will be able to analyze source text structurally and semantically in order to provide the most appropriate translation.

 

Course Syllabus

 

• Re-Examination of Translation Models
• The Linguistic Model
• The Cultural Model
• Text Typology
• Discourse Parameters
• Text Linguistic Model
• Seven Standard of textuality
• Cohesion
• Coherence
• Intentionality
• Acceptability
• Informativity
• Situationally
• Intertextuality

Research Project

18802

(4 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.

Language Testing

18803

(3 Credit Hours)

 

 

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 and evaluate and mark a   language test .

Assessment:

• 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.
•  

 

English Grammar D (Syntax and Morphology)

18804

(3 Credit Hours)

 

 

 

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 particple
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

Intro. To Syllabus Design

18805

(3 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 Language Syllabus Design

practical work: examining different types of syllabus as used in modern published materials.

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.