Course Code: ENG-1111; Course Title: English Reading Credit Hour: 03; 1st Year Semester I
Pre-requisite: N/A
Rationale: This course attempts to strengthen students’ basic skills of reading through building vocabulary, increasing reading and comprehension.
Course Objectives: This course is designed to help students –
▪ build up their vocabularies,
▪ observe and adopt the techniques of reading,
▪ develop reading skills.
Intended Learning Outcomes (ILOs): After studying the course, students will be able to –
▪ enrich vocabulary,
▪ infer the meaning of the text,
▪ read thoroughly and confidently,
▪ differentiate between reading academic texts and reading newspapers and magazine,
▪ identify elements and features of academic reading.
Course Content: This course focuses on the basic skills of reading. This is designed for students at all reading levels. Emphasis is given in increasing the rate of reading and comprehension and on vocabulary expansion.
Unit-1: Reading Fiction Texts
Materials: fractions of various modern fictions written in easy language, short stories etc.; Skills:
making inference, understanding how impressions are created, examining impact of words, examining points of view and reaching a conclusion etc.
Unit-2: Reading Fiction Texts
Reading non-fiction texts: newspapers, prose relating to history, geography, science and technology; Skills: summarizing a text, understanding use of words and their effects, comparing the style of fiction and non-fiction texts etc.
17 Course Code: ENG-1113; Course Title: English Reading and Speaking
Credit Hour: 03; 1st Year Semester I Pre-requisite: N/A
Rationale: The course will enable the students to acquire knowledge about basic use of grammar and sentence structure both in speaking and in writing. Students will be introduced with different types of texts and will be asked to infer the meaning of texts with particular questions or in whole.
Also, an overview will be given on pronunciations, speaking style and on presenting themselves.
Course Objectives: This course is designed to help students –
▪ build up their vocabularies,
▪ observe and adopt the techniques of reading,
▪ develop reading skills,
▪ learn the mechanics of speaking,
▪ use phonetic symbols,
▪ use English in real life situation.
Intended Learning Outcomes (ILOs): After studying the course, students will be able to –
▪ enrich vocabulary,
▪ read thoroughly and confidently,
▪ understand the story,
▪ infer the meaning of the text,
▪ articulate place and manner,
▪ pronounce well.
Contents: This course focuses on the basic skills of reading and speaking. This is designed for students at all reading levels. Emphasis is given in increasing the rate of reading and comprehension and on vocabulary expansion. Reading fiction texts: fractions of various modern fictions written in easy language, short stories etc.; Skills: making inference, understanding how impressions are created, examining impact of words, examining points of view and reaching a conclusion etc. Reading non-fiction texts: newspapers, prose relating to history, geography, science and technology; Skills: summarizing a text, understanding use of words and their effects, comparing the style of fiction and non-fiction texts etc.
Speaking: introduction to pronunciation, place and manner of articulation, phonetic symbols, the most common mistakes in pronunciation, etc.; Skills: making requests, giving commands,
18 inviting people, giving advice, giving suggestions, agreeing and disagreeing, asking questions, giving opinion, making comments, presenting a paper, addressing an audience, etc.
Course Code: ENG-1213; Course Title: English Composition/ Writing Credit Hour: 03; 1st Year Semester II
Pre-requisite: N/A
Rationale: The course will enable the students to acquire knowledge about basic use of grammar, parts of speech, sentence structure, and use of idioms, synonyms, antonyms and phrases. Also, an overview will be given on independent writing using knowledge of vocabulary and avoiding basic grammatical errors.
Course Objectives: This course is designed to help students –
▪ improve sentence structure,
▪ enhance students’ grammatical competence,
▪ understand meaning from the context.
Intended Learning Outcomes (ILOs): After studying the course, students will be able to –
▪ write accurately and confidently,
▪ develop inference ability,
▪ give commands,
▪ summarize monologue.
Contents: This course aims at building the ability of the students in correct writing, composition and presentation of English. The Emphasis of the course is on correct and independent writing and correct listening to individual phoneme and word pronunciation, listening to monologue, listening to dialogue and conversation.
Course Code: ENG-1315; Course Title: English Spoken Credit Hour: 03; 1st Year Semester III
Pre-requisite: N/A
Rationale: The course will enable the students to acquire knowledge about basic use of grammar, parts of speech and sentence structure in speaking. Also, an overview will be given on common mistakes of pronunciations, speaking style and on presenting themselves.
19 Course Objectives: This course is designed to help students –
▪ learn the mechanics of speaking,
▪ use phonetic symbols,
▪ use English in real life situation.
Intended Learning Outcomes (ILOs): After studying the course, students will be able to –
▪ speak thoroughly and confidently,
▪ understand the conversation,
▪ give commands,
▪ articulate place and manner,
▪ pronounce well.
Contents: This course focuses on the basic skills of speaking. This is designed for students at all reading levels. Unit-1: Introduction to pronunciation, place and manner of articulation, phonetic symbols, the most common mistakes in pronunciation, etc.
Unit-2 Skills: making requests, giving commands, inviting people, giving advice, giving suggestions, agreeing and disagreeing, asking questions, giving opinion, making comments, presenting a paper, addressing an audience, etc.
The following contexts may be emphasized: Classroom, shopping center, ticket counter, bus stop, train station, airport, playground, residential hotel etc.
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