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Form (H)

Short course description

Course title: Comparative Constructions 1

Course number and code: 116 LANE

Previous course requirement: NONE Language of the course: ENGLISH

Course level: THREE Effective hours: 2 Hours

Course description : المقرر وصف

The course is at the intersection of grammar, writing, and translating, seeking to enable the beginning students of the department to move smoothly between English and Arabic and between Arabic and English. As such, the course is an occasion for students to put side by side grammatically well-formed sentences in both languages. To do so, the course gives hands-on general practice in comparing, contrasting, formulating, and translating Arabic and English constructions on grammatical principles. In particular, the course focuses on constructions including open-ended parts of speech (nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs) and their close-ended counterparts (determiners, prepositions), and grammatical categories such as tense, aspect, modality, etc.

Course objectives المقرر أهداف

Comparing and contrasting Arabic and English constructions on grammatical principles;

Formulating in Arabic and English constructions including open-ended and closed-ended parts of speech;

Translating Arabic and English constructions, paying special attention to grammaticality and idiomaticity in each language;

Giving the foundation for students to pursue specialized translation courses in subsequent levels.

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Learning outcomes (understanding, knowledge, and intellectual and scientific skills) After studying this course, the student is expected to be able to:

Discriminate between Arabic and English commons constructions;

Grasp the similarities and differences between Arabic and English constructions;

Demonstrate skill in overcoming the word-for-word approach to finding equivalent English sentences for Arabic ones and vice versa;

Translate sentences English sentences from Arabic into English and vice versa for general and practical purposes.

Textbook adopted and supporting references

Title of the book Author's name Publisher's name Date of publication

A Contrastive Grammar of English and Arabic

Khalil, Aziz M. Jordan Book Centre 1999

Form (H)

Short course description (1)

Course title: Dictionary Skills Course number and code:115 LANE

Previous course requirement: NONE Language of the course: English


Course description : وصف المقرر

The course aims to introduce students to

the importance of the dictionary and tries

to develop their abilities to use it

efficiently, particularly as regards looking

up vocabulary spelling, pronunciation,

meaning, origin and derivatives, in

addition to a number of other issues.

Course objectives أهداف المقرر

The course aims at introducing learners to

different types of dictionaries, thesauri and

a brief coverage of their history. Using a

good dictionary and thesaurus will

significantly contribute to increasing the

students’ vocabulary and will consolidate

the grammatical rules in their minds. It

will also enhance their idiomatic use of a

foreign language since such vocabulary is

used in contexts actually or can be

potentially used in natural standard

English. This will also reflect positively

on their ability to prepare requested

homework, and to handle translation

problems by comparing the different

lexical and idiomatic uses of two different

languages.

Learning outcomes (understanding, knowledge, and intellectual and scientific

skills)

After studying this course, the student is expected to be able to:

- use both paper and electronic

dictionaries to look up vocabulary items,

spelling, meaning, pronunciation, and

idioms.

- learn word pronunciation, stress,

spelling, class, and meaning.

- compare lexical and idiomatic uses

when using a bilingual or specialized

dictionary.


Title of the book Author's name Publisher's name Date of

publication

A Handbook of

Lexicography: the

Theory and Practice

of Dictionary-

Making

Svenson Bo

Cambridge

University Press

2009

Oxford Advanced

Learner’s Dictionary

of Current English

A. S. Hornby

Oxford

2011

Bilingual

Lexicography from a

Communicative

Perspective

Heming

Yong &

Jing Peng

John Benjamins

Publishing Co.

2007

Form (H)


Course title: Grammar 1 Course number and code: 113 LANE


Course level: THREE Effective hours: 3 credit hours


This course is taught by focusing on

providing students with knowledge of the basic structures of English in contexts reflected in the materials they study. Teaching verb structures as reflected in tenses are focused on since one of the objectives of the course is to enable students to use English correctly (making clear and appropriate time reference to the past, present and future). The course also covers nouns, definite and indefinite articles, pronouns, adjectives and adverbs. The student is trained to identify simple sentences, simple sentence types. He is also taught their uses and their forms in the affirmative, negative, interrogative, and imperative. The course is expected to contribute to students’ accuracy in speaking and writing. It also aims at helping students read and listen without experiencing many grammatical difficulties that may stand as a major obstacle to processing meaning.

Exercises and drills allow teachers to

make sure that students have properly

assimilated the points discussed and

practiced in class.


- To train students on techniques of

sentence combining in order to produce

coherent structures on the paragraph

level.

- To enable learners to produce topic

sentences followed by other sentences

that are viewed as details of that general

topic ( sentences that relate the topic to

the other ideas found in the text).

- To understand how punctuation can be

used effectively to mark chunks of

meanings.

- To understand that tenses should not

clash in writing coherent sentences.

- To combine sentences observing the

cohesive choices available at the

paragraph level


skills)


- Understand the concept of the topic

sentence and be able to produce it on the

paragraph level.

- Relate the topic to the other ideas( the

supporting sentences) found at the

paragraph level.

- construct and write simple and

compound sentences using sentence

combining techniques.

- avoid sentence fragments and sentence

run-ons.

- Use cohesive devices with some ease.

- Use connectives among sentences

correctly

- use count and non-count nouns,

articles, verb forms, transitional words

and phrases, topic sentences, and

concluding sentences appropriately.

Textbook adopted and supporting references:

Title of the book Author's name Publisher's

name

Date of

publication

Interactions 1:

Grammar

Elaine Kirn &

Darcy Jack

McGraw- Hill

2006

Cambridge Grammar

of English Ronald Carter &

Michael

McCarthy

Cambridge 2006

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Form (H)


Course title:

Listening & speaking 1

Course number and code: 114 LANE




This course is designed to develop the

students’ listening abilities, to

assimilate meaning fast, and to

comprehend a maximum number of

sentences and vocabulary items used in

natural contexts by native speakers of

the language on audio and video

recorded materials. The course,

therefore, attempts to get used to the

ways native speakers pronounce and

enunciate language units from the level

of speech sounds to the level of whole

essays or extended texts (e.g. topics

including school life in different

countries, nature and environment,

ways of life in different societies,

activities at home, cultures and

civilizations of the world, health, and

science and technology). Thus, the

course helps to develop the skills

relevant to listening, concentration on

and the fast-processing of information,

which are all important linguistic skills

necessary in learning languages.


- To develop the students’ listening

abilities, to assimilate meaning fast, and

to comprehend a maximum number of




recorded materials.

- To get the students used to the ways

native speakers pronounce and enunciate

language units from the level of speech

sounds to the level of whole essays or

extended texts (e.g. topics including

school life in different countries, nature

and environment, ways of life in

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different societies, activities at home,

cultures and civilizations of the world,

health, and science and technology).

- To develop the skills relevant to

listening, concentration on and the fast-

processing of information, which are all

important linguistic skills necessary in

learning languages.


skills)


- assimilate meaning fast, and to

comprehend a maximum number of




recorded materials.

- get used to the ways native speakers

pronounce and enunciate language units

from the level of speech sounds to the

level of whole essays or extended texts

(e.g. topics including school life in

different countries, nature and

environment, ways of life in different

societies, activities at home, cultures and

civilizations of the world, health, and

science and technology).

- develop the skills relevant to listening,

concentration on and the fast-processing

of information.

Textbooks adopted and supporting references:

Title of the book Author's

name

Publisher's name Date of

publication

INTERACTIONS 1 /

LISTENING/SPEAKING

Judith Tanka,

Paul Most,

Lida R.Baker

McGraw-Hill

2010

Teaching Listening and

Speaking: From Theory to

Practice

Jack C.

Richards

CAMBRIDGE

UNIVERSITY

PRESS

2008

Northstar: Focus on Listening

and Speaking, Level 3 Jennifer P.L.

Schmidt &

Helen

Solorzano

Pearson ELT

2003,

3rd

edition

3

"The Effects of Time

Compressed Speech on

Listening Comprehension",

Studies in Second Language

Acquisition, 11, 1-16,

Conrad,

Linda Cambridge,

Cambridge

University Press

1989

Form (H)


Course title: Reading 1 Course number and code: 111 LANE





only one text )see the set-book below)

and a number of Internet websites. The

student is trained to identify the theme

or the topic of the whole reading

passage and the other ideas related to it

in the text. The students are also trained

to read aloud correctly making

appropriate pauses and guided – most

of the time – by the punctuation marks

found in the text. The student is also

trained to read fast or skim the text, and

to infer the meanings of new

vocabulary items from the surrounding

contexts. The passages also offer good

chances for the students to understand

other customs and traditions found in

other cultures. This last part is expected

to enhance the cross-cultural abilities of

the students. Exercises and drills allow

teachers to make sure that students have

understood the meanings of individual

vocabulary items and of the text as a

whole.


- To familiarize students with the

concept of the theme or topic of a text

- To relate the theme to the other ideas

found in the text.

- to read aloud correctly making

appropriate pauses while being guided –

most of the time – by the punctuation

marks found in the text.

- to understand other customs and

traditions found in other cultures.

- To be able to infer the meaning of new


contexts.

- To bridge gaps among different

cultures by being aware of the different

customs and traditions in those cultures.


skills)


- Understand the concept of the theme

or topic of a text.

- Relate the theme to the other ideas

found in the text (find out the main idea

of a text as well as the supporting ideas).

- Read aloud correctly making

appropriate pauses while being guided

by the punctuation marks found in the

text.

- Understand other customs and

traditions found in other cultures.

- Be able to infer the meanings of new


contexts.

- Bridge gaps among different cultures

through understanding the different

customs and traditions that shape the life

of people in other cultures.



name

Date of

publication

Interactions I:

Reading

Elaine Kirn &

Pamela Hartmann

McGraw-Hill 2007/ 4th

edition

1

Form (H)


Course title: Vocabulary Building Course number and code: 119 LANE

Previous course requirement: NONE Language of the course: ENGLISH



The Course aims at making students

aware of the importance of quantitative

studies in determining the usage power

of any vocabulary item used in speech

or writing. This is followed by

introducing the students to some lists of

the most frequent words in English. The

student also learns the derivation

techniques applied to the root of the

derived words. The Course includes

oral and written exercises that help to

explore the relative usage power or

weakness of certain vocabulary items. It

addresses issues such as loan-words in

English, collective nouns, patterns in

nationalities and languages, etc.


To provide the student with information

about studies of vocabulary based on a

quantitative analysis of what people

actually use in speech and writing. The

course also studies parts of speech: noun

and verb suffixes, derivations, nouns

and verb base or roots. The students are

also introduced to some of derivation

techniques and their uses in order to

develop vocabulary. The course

integrates both oral and written

exercises.


skills)


- build up a richer vocabulary.

- use this vocabulary appropriately and

efficiently.

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- use idiomatic expressions and

figurative language more efficiently.


Title of the book Author's name Publisher's name Date of

publication

English

Vocabulary in

Use: Pre-

intermediate and

Intermediate

Stuart Redman Cambridge University

Press

2004| 3rd

printing

English

Vocabulary in

Use: Upper-

intermediate

Part one

Felicity O’Dell

& McCarthy

Cambridge University

Press

2007

Form (H)


Course title: Writing 1 Course number and code: 112 LANE





only one text )see the set-book below)

and a number of other references

including those on the Internet

websites. The student is trained to write

basic clauses and how to combine them

into compound and complex sentences

while using punctuation marks

correctly. Students also learn how to

apply such combining techniques to

write about specific topics in their daily

lives. Light is shed on the order and

structure of sentence constituents and

how to use them according to the

grammatical rules. The course also aims

at writing short paragraphs and using

cohesive devices between sentences,

and paragraphs with more focus on

narrative and descriptive modes.

Exercises and drills allow teachers to

make sure that students have properly

assimilated the points discussed and

practiced in class.


- To train students on techniques of

sentence combining in order to produce

coherent structures on the paragraph

level.

- To enable learners to produce topic

sentences followed by other sentences

that are viewed as details of that general

topic ( sentences that relate the topic to

the other ideas found in the text).

- To understand how punctuation can be

used effectively to mark chunks of

meanings.

- To understand that tenses should not

clash in writing coherent sentences.

- To combine sentences observing the

cohesive choices available at the

paragraph level


skills)


- Understand the concept of the topic

sentence and be able to produce it on the

paragraph level.

- Relate the topic to the other ideas( the

supporting sentences) found at the

paragraph level.

- construct and write simple and

compound sentences using sentence

combining techniques.

- avoid sentence fragments and sentence

run-ons.

- Use cohesive devices with some ease.

- Use connectives among sentences

correctly

- use count and non-count nouns,

articles, verb forms, transitional words

and phrases, topic sentences, and

concluding sentences appropriately.



name

Date of

publication

Interactions 2: Paragraph

development and

introduction to the essay

Cheryl Pavlik &

Margaret Keenan

Segal), Middle East

edition

McGraw Hill 2007

An Introduction to English

Sentence Structure :

Clauses, Markers, Missing

Elements

Jon Jonz & Lucia

Nixon

Equinox 2011

Sentence Skills : A

Workbook for Writers

John Langan McGraw-Hill July 2010

http://www.allbookstores.com/book/9781845531461/Jon_Jonz/Introduction_To_English_Sentence_Structure.html




http://www.allbookstores.com/author/Jon_Jonz.html

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