:Course Contents
The course will cover the following:
1. Introduction
a) What is Academic Writing?
b) Forms of Academic Writing
c) Why Teach Academic Writing?
2. Academic styles
a) Paraphrasing and Summarizing
b) Quotations and Referencing
3. Academic Writing Practice
a) Interpreting information from diagrams
b) Interpreting and comparing data
c) Describing information from tables
d) Describing diagrams showing natural processes
Course Book: 1.Handouts
2. Jordan, R. R. 1999. Academic Writing Course. Study Skills in English.
3rd Ed. Longman. 3. McCarter, S. 2002. Academic Writing Practice for
IELTS.IntelliGene.
3. Evans, V. 1998. Successful Writing Proficiency. Express Publishing.
Content of the Course (Syllabus) (Course Plan)
S. No. Topic Outline
1. Definition of Terms
- Tests and Examinations
- Evaluation
2. Testing and Teaching
- Introduction
- Criteria for a good language test
- The objectives of teaching English as a
Foreign Language
- Backwash
- The beneficial backwash
- The harmful backwash
3. Approaches to English Language Testing
- Essay Translation Approach
- The d discrete Point Approach
- The Integrative Approach
- The Communicative Testing Approach
4. Types of Tests
- Aptitude or Prognostic tests
- Di agnostic tests
- Placement tests
- Proficiency tests
- Achievement tests
5. Objective Tests
- The Nature of Objective tests
- Types of Objective tests
- Bloom’s Taxonomy
- The Merits and Demerits of Objective tests
6. Characteristics of a Good Language Test
- Validity
- Reliability
- Practicality
7. Testing the four Language Skill and their
Components
- Testing the Listening Skill
- Testing the Speaking Skill
- Testing the Reading Skill
- Testing the Writing Skill
- Testing Grammar
- Testing Vocabulary
:Content
1. Theoretical Basis:
a. linguistic
b. psychological
3. Syllable Type:
a. structural
b. functional
c. eclectic
4. Methodology:
a. teacher-centered
b. student-centered
5. Language Skills
a. separated
b. integrated
6. Number of Units/Lessons
7. Number of Cyclical/Revision Units/Lessons
8. Structure/ Organization of Unit/Lesson
a. order/presentation of skills
b. prioritizing/precedence of skills: rationale
9. Work Type:
a. drill-based
b. task-based
10. Testing:
a. discrete-point item
b. communicative References:
Brown, H. Douglas (2001) Teaching by Principles: An Interactive Approach
to Language Pedagogy (2nd Edition), Pearson Longman. Larsen-Freeman,
Dianne (2000) Techniques and Principles in Language Teaching (2nd
edition), New York: Oxford University Press. Dubin, F. & Olshtain, E. (1986)
“Course Design: Developing programs and material for language learning.”
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Richards, Jack & Rodgers,
Theodore (1986) Approaches and Methods in Language Teaching. New
York: Cambridge University Press.
:Course Content
The course will cover the following:
1. Classrooms at work Classrooms Teacher Teaching and Learning
Different kinds of Teachers The subject matter of language teaching First
lessons – hints and strategies What method?
2. Understanding your students and being a good teacher
3. Classroom activities
4. What is classroom management?
Common classroom areas:
- grouping and seating
- activities
- authority
- critical moments
- tools and techniques
- working with people (learners)
5. Classroom Interaction
- Teacher-student interaction
- Student-student interaction
6. Seating (classroom arrangement)
- Students' seating arrangement
who sits next whom
- Fixed, semi-fixed and large seating
movable seating
- Seating options in the classroom
- Changing arrangements to fit activities
Activities directed from the front
Whole class interaction
Pair work
Group work
Individual work
Using the board position
Using audio-visuals
7. Giving Instructions
- Complex instructions
- Giving clearer and effective instructions
- To be consistent
- To be decisive
- Making sure instructions are understood
- Planning simpler instructions
- Improving instructions
8. Attention Spread
- How to get learners' attention?
- Participate, monitor or vanish
Teacher's role in pair and group activities
Teacher's role while students do an activity
- Give individual attention
Dealing with students who don't want public attention
Attention during pair work and group work
9. Teacher talk and student talk
- Teacher talk
- Advantages of teacher talk
- Disadvantages of teacher talk
- Helping students understand what the teacher says
- Avoiding unnecessary and unhelpful teacher talking time (TTT)
10. Using Gestures
- Gestures (common)
- Creating new gestures
11. Eliciting, giving instructions and setting up activities
- advantages of eliciting
- disadvantages of eliciting
- techniques of eliciting
- when eliciting
12. Setting up Activities
- different types of activities
- Planning activities
- Monitoring
13. Starting and finishing the lesson
14. Establishing rapport and monitoring discipline
15. The monolingual and the multilingual class
16. Planning lessons and courses
a) Reasons for planning
b) What does a lesson involve?
c) Lesson preparation
d) Varying lesson components
e) Planning questions
f) Plan formats
g) Planning a sequence of lessons
h) Evaluating lesson effectiveness
i) Practical lesson management
:Course Books
1. Scrivner, J. 2005. Learning Teaching. A guidebook for English language
teachers. 2nd Ed. Macmillan Books for Teachers. Macmillan.
2. Ur, P. 1991. A Course in Language Teaching. Practice and theory.
Cambridge University Press. 3. Harmer, J. 2007. How to teach English.
Longman.
3. Celce-Murcia, M. (Ed) 2001. Teaching English as a Second or a Foreign
Language. Heinle & Heinle.
4. Gower, Phillips & Walters. 2005. Teaching Practice. A Guide For
Teachers in Training. Macmillan Books for Teachers. Macmillan. (Chapter2)
5. Scrivner, J. 2005. Learning Teaching. A guidebook for English language
teachers. 2nd Ed. Macmillan Books for Teachers. Macmillan. (Chapter 5)
:Course Content
The course will cover the following:
1. Teaching Pronunciation
a) What does teaching pronunciation involve?
b) Listening to accents
c) Improving learners' pronunciation
d) Pronunciation and spelling
2. Teaching vocabulary and phrases
a) What is vocabulary and what needs to be taught?
b) Presenting new vocabulary
c) Remembering vocabulary
d) Vocabulary work in the classroom
3. Teaching Grammar
a) What is grammar?
b) The place of grammar teaching
c) Grammatical terms
d) Presenting and explaining grammar
e) Grammatical mistakes
4. Teaching listening
a) Reasons for listening
b) What does real-life listening involve?
c) Listening levels, skills, principles and sequences
d) Real-life listening in the classroom
5. Teaching speaking
a) Reasons for teaching speaking
b) Successful oral fluency practice
c) The functions of topic and task
d) Discussion activities
e) Other kinds of spoken interaction
f) Role play and related techniques
g) Correcting speaking
h) What teachers do during a speaking activity
6. Teaching reading
a) Reasons for reading
b) How do we read?
c) Beginning reading
d) Types of reading activities
e) Improving reading skills
f) Advanced reading
7. Teaching writing
a) Reasons for teaching writing
b) Written versus spoken text
c) Teaching procedures
d) Tasks that stimulate writing
e) The process of composition
f) Correcting written work
g) Handwriting
8. Teaching business English
9. Teaching one-to-one
10. Video lessons of teachers in action
:Course Books
1. Harmer, J. 2007. How to teach English. Longman.
2. Ur, P. 1991. A Course in Language Teaching. Practice and theory.
bridge University Press.
3. Celce-Murcia, M. (Ed) 2001. Teaching English as a Second or a Foreign
Language Heinle & Heinle.
:Course Content
The course covers the following:
1. Introduction
a. What counts English?
b. Who speaks English?
c. The origins of English.
d. Examples of old, middle and modern English.
2. varieties in English
a) What is "varieties of English"?
b) Variety Labels
c) Other Variety Labels
3. Varieties according to geographical areas
a) National Varieties
b) Varieties within AmE
c) Varieties within BrE
d) Other National Varieties
4. Varieties according to situations
a) Spoken English
b) Written English
c) Formal and informal language
d) Polite and familiar style
e) Impersonal and personal Style
f) Tact, Euphemism, Taboo and Tentativeness
g) Literary and rhetoric style
h) Scientific English
i) Legal English
5. The language of press
6. The English of Advertising
:Course Book
1. Hasan Ghazala. 1994. Varieties of English Simplified. A Textbook for
Advanced University Students of English. ELGA Publication.
2. Mohammad Mansour. 2008. Varieties of English. An introductory
Textbook for Advanced Learners and University English Majors. Alwatania
Publishing
:Course Contents
:The course aims to cover the following
1. Introduction
i) What is poetry?
ii) How to read poetry?
iii) What makes a poem?
2. Poetry reading, responding, writing.
i) reading poems ii) responding to poems iii) writing
3. Elements of poetry – speaker's voice – Diction and syntax – Imagery –
Figures
of speech – Rhyme, rhythm and metre – structure of form.
4. Kinds of poetry – Narrative poems - Lyrics
a) The epic – traditional epic – epic of Art -
b) The ballad – The folk ballad – Literary Ballad –
c) Lyric poetry – characteristics – Intensity – Subjectivity – spontaneity –
Brevity – musical quality – unity of structure
d) The ode – Pindaric ode – horatian ode – the English ode
e) The sonnet – petrarchan – Shakespearean – scanning a sonnet
f) eve elegy - - pastoral elegy – the British elegy
g) the dramatic monologue -
5. Writing about poetry
6. Analysis and reading of poetry by major poets: To be chosen by the
course instructor.
a) William Shakespeare b) Donne
c) Milton d) Dryden
e) Blake f) Wordsworth
g) Tennyson h) Browning
i) Eliot
:Course Book
1. Handouts.
2. Booth, A.; Hunter, P. & Mays, K. 2006. The Norton Introduction to Poetry.
W. W. Norton & Company..
:Course Content
The course covers the following:
1. Review of Modal Auxiliary Verbs
2. Determiners:
a) This, That, There, These
b) My, Your ….. etc & Mine, Yours ….. etc.
c) The Possessive Form and 'of'
d) 'Some' & 'Any'
e) A lot of, lots of, many, much … etc.
f) All, Half, Most … etc.
g) Every, Each, Whole, Both … etc.
3. Phrasal Verbs
4. Prepositions Verbs
:Course Books
1. Eastwood, J. 2006. Oxford Practice Grammar. Intermediate. Oxford
University Press.
2. Murphy, R. 2000. English Grammar in Use. Intermediate to upperintermediate.
Cambridge University Press.
3. M. Vince. Macmillan English Grammar in Context. Intermediate.
Macmillan.