مقررات قسم الانجليزي

General courses:

اللغة العربية  (GEN -01)  3 Credit Hours

Pre-requisite: None

 

مهارات اللغوية ENL401 (3 Credit Hours)

Pre-requisite : GEN-01

 

       تربية إسلاميةENL 202  (2 Credit Hours)

Pre-requisite: None

 

 علم النفس العامENL201  (3 Credit Hours)

Pre-requisite: None

Computer Skills  ENL112  (3 Credit Hours)

Pre-requisite: None

 

Listening and Speaking A

ENL114

(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

  • 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

  • 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 togive 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

 

Assessment

Students are assessed in the listening and speaking components of this course according to the following:

Classwork

20%
  • Class participation and homework 
  • oral presentations based on listening input from an out-of-class source, e.g. TV, the Internet, etc.

Mid-term examination

20%

The following are conducted in the language labs:

  • listening exams: students listen to recorded texts  and answer questions on paper
  • Speaking exams: students talk on given topics by recording their answers on tape 

Final Examination

60%

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References 

Brown,G.(1990) Listening to Spoken English . Longman 

 

Reading Comprehension A

ENL111

(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.

 

References 

Silberstein S. (1994). Techniques & Resources in Teaching Reading Oxford: OUP.

Evans ,Virginia  & Dooley, jenny.(2000) Reading & Writing  1. Newbury : Express publishing.

 

Writing A

ENL112

(3 Credit Hours)

 

Pre-requisite: None

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

 

References 

Sarag,A, &shefiei,M.(2007 ).Effective academic writing (the paragraphs ) .Oxford :  oxford university press .

 

English Grammar A

ENL 113

(4 Credit Hours)

Pre-requisite: None

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
  1. 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
  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

 

References

 

Abu Nowara, A and  Imssalem ,N (2000) Basic Course in English Grammar Benghazi:     Benghazi  University  press. 

 

                      Normal, coe  et.al .(2006)Oxford Practice Grammar. oxford: OUP  

 

Reading Comprehension B

ENL 203

(3 Credit Hours)

 

Pre-requisite: ENL111

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

 

REFERENCE :

McAvoy,Jackie. ( 2000) Effective Reading ( pre-intermediate ). Macmillan:  Macmillan publishing  

 

Writing B

ENL 204

(3 Credit Hours)

Pre-requisite: ENL112

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

References 

Sarag, A.& Shefiei ,M . (2007 ).Effective Academic Writing .(  short essays ). Oxford : OUP.

 

Listening and speaking B

ENL205 

(4 Credit Hours)

Pre-requisite: ENL114

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.

 

References  

Wilson J.J (2011).How to teach Listening. Harlow: Pearson/ Longman.

 

English Grammar B

ENL206

(3 credit hours)

Pre-requisite:ENL113

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

 

References 

 

Bastone R., (1994) Grammar. Oxford: OUP

 

Imssalam  N, Abu Nowara ,A  (2000)  Intermediate English Grammar .Benghazi : Benghazi university press. 

 

Murphy,  Raymand  (2014 ). English Grammar in Use.Cambridge : CUP.

 

Reading and Writing

ENL301

(4 credit hours)

 

Pre-requisite:ENL204 – ENL203

 

The aim of this course is to integrate reading and writing together. The course begins with a reading passage followed by a variety of discussion and writing activities. The reading passage provides input which helps students to move forward from paragraph writing to essay writing.

Robert F&Miller ,Judy .( 2005) Reason to Write . Strategies for Success in

Academic Writing.

Evans ,Virgina&Doodly,Jenny .( 2000).Reading& Writing.  Newbury : express publishing .

 

Arabic Grammar 

ENL302

(3 credit hours)

 

Pre-requisite: none

 

The aim of this course is highlight those Arabic structures which in translation course.

Wright,W.( 1964)  A Grammar of the Arabic Language . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press. 

عماد حاتم (1980) اللغة العربية قواعد و نصوص . منشورات المنشاء الشعبية للنشر و التوزيع و الاعلان.

 

Introduction to Linguistics

ENL303

(4 credit hours)

Pre-requisite: None

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

 

  1.   The scope of linguistics
  • Language and parole
  • Competence and performance
  • Language structure and language use

 

  1.   Investigating language
  • The use of intuition
  • The use of corpus linguistics

 

  1.   A historical introduction
  • The early contribution of ancient linguistics
    • The Indians
    • The Greek
    • The Arabs

 

  1.   Nineteen and Twentieth Century Linguistics
  • Historical linguistics
  • Descriptive
  • Generative linguistics
  • Synchronic linguistics vs. diagnostic linguistics
  • Prescriptive vs. descriptive
  • Structural linguistics
  • Transformational-Generative Grammar

 

  1.   Principles and levels of analysis
  • Phonetics
  • Phonology
  • Morphology
  • Syntax
  • Semantics
  • Meaning in context: pragmatics

 

  1.   Current issues and other areas of linguistics
  • Universal grammar
  • Formal linguistics
  • Functional linguistics

 

  1.   Other areas of linguistics: Psycholinguistics and Sociolinguistics

References 

Imssalam ,N  AbouNwara , A ( 2000 ) Introducing  linguistics to Arab Learner  .Benghazi : Benghazi university press. 

Yuel, George .(2010 ).The Study of Language. Cambridge : Cambridge University press. 

 

Introduction to Translation

ENL304

(4 credit hours)

Pre-requisite: NONE

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 sarting 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).

 

References::

Bassent,Susan (1991) . Translation Studies. London:  Routledge

Catford,J.( 1965). A linguistic Theory of Translation.London : Oxford University Press

Newmark ,P(1988).Approaches to Translation . London Prentice Hall International .

Nid, E.( 1964)Toward a Science of Translating . Leiden: Brill 

 

Phonetics and Phonology

ENL402

(4 credit hours)

Pre-requisite:  ENL303

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. 
  11. Transcription
  12. IPA symbols and their use
  13. Transcription of one-and-two-syllable words
  14. Suprasegmental
  15. syllable structure/ English syllable structure
  16. stress patterns
  17. intonation
  18. weak and strong form

 

References

Catford ,J.(2002).A practical Introduction to Phonetics .Oxford: Oxford University press.

 

Academic Writing 

ENL403

 (4 credit hours)

Pre-requisite:  ENL204

  1. Structure and Cohesion 

          The general Organization of a piece of Academic Writing

  1. Description: Process and Procedure
  2. Passive Sentence Structure
  3. Active Sentence Structure
  4. Description of the Procedure for Writing an Essay
  5. Description: Physical Description
  6. Structure related to Description
  7. Vocabulary related to Description 
  8. Narrative: Historical Background and Development
  9. Description of Events in the Past
  10. Chronological Order of Events 
  11. Structure and Vocabulary Aid
  12. Definitions:
  13. Simple Definition
  14. Academic Definition
  15. Extended Definition
  16. Structure and Vocabulary Aid
  17. Exemplification: 
  18. Different ways of Exemplification
  19. Structure and Vocabulary Aid
  20. Classification
  21. Diagrammatic Classification
  22. Writing paragraphs from Diagrams
  23. Structure and Vocabulary Aid
  24. Comparison and Contrast
  25. The Language of Comparison and Contrast
  26. Similarities and Differences
  27. Extended Comparison 
  28. Structure and Vocabulary Aid
  29. Cause and Effect:
  30. Connectives and Markers 
  31. Identifying Relationships
  32. Structure and Vocabulary Aid

Notes:

Source of knowledge and information

References 

Jordan R. (2001). Academic Writing Course.Pearson Education Limited

Sarag,A.sheifie,M. (2007 )Effective academic  writing .( short essays )

 

English Grammar C

ENL404

(4 credit hours)

 

Pre-requisite: ENL206

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 ofA
  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 andThe 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. prepositionalcomplement

Adverbial Clauses

Types:

  1. Time 2. place 3. manner 4. reason or cause 5.purpose 6.result orconsequence 7.condition 8. concession 9. comparison 10 degree 

Function:

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

References 

Imssalam, Nuwara .( 2000).Context Based in English Grammar .  Garyiouns :Garyiouns   University press  

Thornbury, Scott.  (2005). Beyond  to sentence  . Oxford : Macmillan publication limited.

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Language Learning

ENL405

(3 credit hours)

 

Pre-requisite: ???

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
  1. Factors affecting second language learning 
  • Intelligence
  • Personality
  • Motivation
  • Age
  1. Learner Language
  • The concept of learner language
  • Types of error
  1. Second Language Learning in the classroom
  • Learners in Traditional Classroom
  • Learners in Communicative Classroom

Light ,Bown,&Spade, Nida (1995). How languages are learned .Oxford: Oxforduniversity press .

 

Morphology

ENL501

(3 credit hours)

Pre-requisite: ENL303

  1. Introduction: Words and Word- Formation Processes
  2. Coinage
  3. Borrowing
  4. compounding
  5. Blending
  6. Clipping
  7. Backformation
  8. Conversion
  9. Acronyms
  10. Affixation
  11. What is Morphology?
  12. Definition of Morphology
  13. Definition of a Morpheme
  14. Distinction between two unit morphemes:
  15. The Meaningful Unit Morphemes ( Free Category: Lexical and 

 Functional Morphemes)

  1. The Grammatical Unit Morpheme(Bound Category: Affixes:   

Prefixes, Infixes, Suffixes)

 

  1. The Realization of Morphemes:
  2. Morphs (Monomorphic and polymorphic)
  3. Allomorphs (Morphological or Phonological matter)

3.. Identifying Morphemes ( in) dependently ofmeaning

  1. The Processes of Affixation:
  2. Inflectional Process
  3. Derivational Process
  4. A Word and its structure:
  5. The Flat Structure Approach
  6. The Tree Diagram Approach
  7. The Labelled Bracketing Approach

 

Notes:

  1. Evaluation of students: Out of 100 marks:
  2. Mid Term Examination :(40 marks)
  3. Final Examination: (60 marks)
  4. Sources of knowledge and information:

Collected materials from two books:

 The Study of Language

Introduction to Morphology

 

Carstairs ,McCarthy, A. (2002).An Introduction to English Morphology. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.

 

Workshops in Trans. English / Arabic I

ENL502

(4 credit hours)

 

Pre-requisite: ENL401

 

The aim of this course is to introduce appropraite texts for translation to improve the students’ reading comprhension and their cultural awareness from reading and translating texts from English into Arabic. The texts will involve a varitey of topics related to informative and creative texts. The selection will be drawn form newspapers, literary wroks, magazines, that would include political, journalistic, legal, literary and scientific texts. (300 to 700 word text is appropriate for class and home assignment).                                                                                                            

 

Objectives of both third year translation courses E/A and A/E I are to :

  1. apply the the theoretical principles  already introduced in Principles of Translaiton course. 
  2. Improve students’ knowledge in both vocabulary and grammar.
  3. Understand texts in reference to syntactic, semantic, and cultural aspects.   

 

Reference 

Jame,D., Hervey S. &Heygins (2002) Thinking Arabic Translation Method English to Arabic. London :Routledge . 

 

Language Teaching

ENL503

(3 credit hours)

Pre-requisite: ENL405

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

 

  1. Teaching and learning the language

*the nature of language

*the nature of learning

 

  1. Learning theories

*the behaviorist theory

*the cognitive theory

*implications to classroom practice

 

4.Structuralism in language teaching

 

  1. Functionalism in language teaching

 

  1. Methods and approaches in ELT

* the grammar translation method

*the audio-lingual method

* the reading method

*the eclectic approach

*the communicative approach

 

  1. Levels of language description

* teaching pronunciation

*teaching vocabulary

*teaching grammar

References 

Brumfit , Christopher.( 1994) Communication Methodology in LanguageTeaching. Cambridge: Cambridge university  press

Harmer ,Jeremy .( 1991) The practice of English language teaching . Longman :Longman publishing .

 

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Contrastive and Error Analysis

ENL504

(3 credit hours)

 

Pre-requisite: none

The objectives of this course is to introduce the students to the techniques and  procedures used by both CA and  EA in describing the learners’ inter-language . Its application to the theories of teaching and learning a second language or a foreign language. Moreover learners at the end of the course should be able to identify and analyze these different types of errors made by second or foreign language learners.                                                                                                                         

 

Semantics

ENL601

 (3 Credit Hours)

 

Pre-requisite: ENL303

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

 

  1.   From reference
  • Referring expressions
  • Predicates
  • Universe of discourse
  • Deixis and definiteness
  • Words and thing: extensions and prototypes

 

  1.   Sense
  • Sense properties and stereotype
  • Sense relations

 

  1.   Logic
  • About logic
  • A notion of simple propositions
  • Connectives

 

References:

 

Cruse,Alan(2004).Meaning in  Language.Oxford : Oxford University Press.

Lieber, R (2004) Morphology and lexical  semantics .Cambridge :  Cambridge university press

 

Hurford,J.Heasley ,B.& Smith ,M .( 2007 ) Semantics : A course book . Cambridge :Cambridge University Press. 

 

Workshops in Trans. English / Arabic II

ENL602

(4 credit hours)

 

Pre-requisite: ENL502

The aim of this course is to provide more practice in translating a selection of authentic English-Arabic articles from a number of sources. The selection will include international relations, law, creative writing, religious, philosophical, and educational and cultural topics.   This course also aims  to enable students of translation to read and write coherently applying the information studied previously or currently. 

Objectives of both E/A and A/E II courses are to:

a- improve understanding by extending more practice as classswork and homework assignments 

b-  improve students’ knowledge in both languages and cultures.

  1. enhance students’ comprehension in style and textuality (cohesion and coherence).

References 

Dickins,J , Hervey,S. & Higgins, I.(2002) A course in  Translation  English – Arabic. London: Routledge .

 

Teaching Language Skills

ENL603

(3 credit hours)

 

Pre-requisite:ENL503

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. The language syllabus

*Structural syllabus

*situational syllabus

*functional syllabus

*discourse based syllabus

 

  1. Language skills

*teaching reading 

*teaching listening

*teaching speaking

 

References 

 

Premack ,A.& D.Permack. (1991). ” teaching  language to   an ape” In W. Wang. The Emergence of Language . W.H. Freeman 

 

Contrastive & Comparative Linguistics (Arabic / English)

ENL604

(4 credit hours)

 

Pre-requisite: ENL303

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. 

 

References                                                                    

Abdul-Sahib,A. (2003) Some Grammatical Shifts in English-Arabic Translation.university  AlSharja Publications .

Aziz,Y.(1989) A contrastive Grammar of English  and Arabic .Mosul : Mosul University Press .

Tomasello,M.(2003) Constructing a language .Harvard University Press. 

 

Syntax I

ENL701

(3 credit hours)

 

Pre-requisite: ENL303

It covers the main descriptive rules of English syntax. 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

  1. The clause
  2. The phrase
  3. The morpheme
  4. Syntactic Classes and Function
  5. 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.

 

References 

Miller, Jim. ( 2006).An  Introduction  to English Syntax. Edinburgh: Edinburgh university press. 

 

Research Methodology

ENL702

(4 Credit Hours)

 

Pre-requisite: ENL403

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 

 

Syllabus Design

ENL703

(4 Credit Hours)

 

Pre-requisite: ENL503

The aims of the course are to describe and understand the methods and procedures for designing language programs and conducting a comprehensive needs analysis and reviewing the challenges in order to define the structure and content of ESL syllabus as well as establishing syllabus objectives and designing originals and creative materials suited to the needs of the learners. By the end of the course , students will have general background about different  syllabus models. In addition, students will  acquire theoretical and analytical skills in planning language syllabus.

References 

Dubin,F. &Olshtain, E .( 1994).Course Design .Cambridge : The Press Syndicate of University of Cambridge 

Imssalem, N. (2001).Textbook Evaluation and Designing a Syllabus an Evaluation of a first Year English textbook for Libyan Learners. Benghazi:  University of Benghazi Press.

 

Translation Theories 

ENL704

(4 Credit Hours)

 

Pre-requisite: ENL602

 

Course Description

 

This course is a further development of the basic c\\ourse “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 Sylabus

  • Re-Examination of Translation Models
  • The Linguistic Model
  • The Cultural Model
  • Text Typology
  • Discourse Parameters
  • Text Linguistic Model
  • Seven Standard of textuality
  1. Cohesion
  2. Coherence
  3. Intentionality
  4. Acceptability
  5. Informativity
  6. Situationality
  7. Intertextuality

 

References 

Beaugrande,De&Dressler,W.(19981) Introduction toText Linguistics. London: longman

Catford, J.C. (1965). Approaches to Translation.London : Prentice Hall International (new edition).

Gentzler, E. (1995). Contemporary Translation Theories, Christie’s Images Ltd. England. 

Hatim,B&Mason,I.(1990) Discourse and the  Translator .London : Longman 

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Linguistics , Applied English or Translation Project

ENL801

(4 credit hours)

 

Pre-requisite: ENL702

 

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.

 

References 

Cook, G. ( 2003) Introduction to Applied Linguistics. Oxford : Oxford University Press. 

 

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Syntax II

ENL802

(3 credit hours)

 

Pre-requisite: ENL701

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. 

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

Reference 

Brown,K .&J.Miller .(1991) Syntax :A Linguistics Introduction to Sentence Structure . Routledge

Carnie ,A .(2002) Syntax .Blackwell

 

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Language Testing

ENL803

(4 credit hours)

 

Pre-requisite: ENL603

The aim of this course is to provide the students with basic information about testing English as a foreign language. Students should be given the opportunity to study different samples of achievement, placement and proficiency tests. by the end of the course student should be able to understand how to construct, administer and score a language test.                                                         

Course syllabus

 

  • Introduction to language testing
  • Classroom and standardized language tests
  • Types of language tests
  • Test construction and administration
  • Testing language components (grammar & vocabulary)
  • Testing reading and listening. Testing speaking and writing
  • Evaluating and improving tests
  • Basic Test Statistics

 

Reference 

 

Hughes ,A.(1989). Testing for Language Teachers .Cambridge : Cambridge University press.

Harrison , Andrew.( 2001) A language e Testing Handbook.

 

Translating Different Types of Texts 

ENL804

(4 credit hours)

 

Pre-requisite: ENL704

 

Students will continue practice how to translate different types of texts such as legal, business, medical , political , and scientific.

 

Reference 

Sager,J.(1997) Text Types and Translation . In Trosborg A (ed) Text Typology and Translation. Amasterdam :Benjamins