:Course Content
:The course will cover the following
1. What is research?
2. A paradigm of second language research
3. The preparatory stages of research
4. Contextualization of research
5. the components of research
6. Research design: qualitative and quantitative research
7. Research design: experimental research
8. Data and data collection
9. Analyzing the data
10. Putting it together
:Course Book
1. Handouts.
2. Seliger, H. & Shohamy, E. 1989. Second Language Research Methods.
Oxford University Press.
References:
1. Bell, J. 1999. Doing Your Research Project. A guide for first-time
researchers in education and social sciences. 3rd ed. Open University
Press.
2. Blaxter, L., Hyghes, C., & Tight, M. 2000. How to research. 2nd ed. Open
University Press.
:Course Contents
The course aims to cover extracts from the following: (to be chosen by the
Lecturer)
1. Introduction to comparative literature
Women in Classical Writings
Semonides of Amorgos: an essay on Women
King Solomon: The Book of Proverbs, CH. 31
2. Palestinian Refugee & Resistance Literature
Ghassan Kanafani: Land of Sad Oranges
Jabra Ibrahim Jabra: The City
Mahmud Darwish: Identity Card
3. Middle East Feminist Writing
Nawal Saadawi (Egypt): Eyes
Daisy El-Amir (Iraq): Eyes in the Miror
4. émigré Literature
Gibran Kahlil Gibran: The Prophet
5. African Literature
Mabel Segun (Nigeria): Bride Price
Bini (Nigeria): Bride's Complaint
Baganda (Uganda): Song of the Bridesmaids
Shabaan Roberts (Tanzania): Lagh with Happiness
Joe de Graft (Ghana): Akosua 'Howa
Tuareg Song (Sahara): Girl's Song
Redwan Abushwesha (Libya): The Mist
Salah Jahin (Egupt): Rubaiyat
6. Chinese Literature
Huang Gobin: A Night Prayer
Gu Cheng: An Ending
Dai Wangshu: Written on a Prison Wall
Zhang Ye: Bride
7. Native American / Red Indian Writings
Pretty Shield: A woman's Fight
8. Indian Literature
Mulk Raj Anand: The Lost Child
9. Children's Literature
Aesop: The Wind & the Sun
Broyhers Grimm: The Fisherman and his Wife
Hans Christian Andersen: The Ugly Duckling
10. Travel Literature
Homer: The Odyssey
William Dalrymple: From the Holy Mountain
Course Book: Handouts
:Course Contents
:The course will cover the following
1. Definition of terms (approach, method, technique )
2. Teaching Methods
3. Grammar-Translation Method
4. Direct Method
5. Audio-lingual Method
6. Communicative Language Teaching
8. Task-based learning
9. Eclectic method of teaching
;Course Books
1. Larsen-Freeman, D.2000. Techniques and Principles in Language
Teaching. Oxford University Press.
2. Richards & Rodgers. 2001. Approaches and Methods in Language
Teaching. Cambridge Language Teaching Library. Cambridge University
Press.
:Course Contents
:The course aims to cover the following
1. Drama reading, responding, writing.
i) reading plays ii) responding to plays iii) writing
2. Origin of drama – Greece, Aristotle & Catharsis
2. elements of drama: Plot, character, dialogue, staging and theme
comedy, tragedy and tragic-comedy
3. Exploring context
a) the author's work as context
b) performance as context
c) critical contexts
4. Analysis and reading of a play by a major writer: To be chosen by the
course instructor.
a) William Shakespeare
b) Arthur Miller
c) Lorraine Hansberry
:Course Book
1. Handouts.
2. Gainer, M.; Puchner, J. & Garner, S. 2009. The Norton Anthology of
Drama. Volumes 1 & 2. W. W. Norton & Company.
:Course Content
:The course will cover the following
1.Editing
2. Patterns of short/five-paragraph essays
1) Description Essays
2) Narrative Essays
3) Opinion Essays
4) Comparison and contrast Essays
5) Essays suggesting solutions to problems
6) Process Analysis Essays
7) Cause and Effect Essays
8) Argumentative Essays
9) Classification Essays
10) Reaction Essays
11) Literary Essays
3 Essays for examinations
:Course Book
1. Handouts.
2. Mayer & Savage 2007. Effective Academic Writing 2 The Short Essay.
Oxford University Press.
3. Davis & Liss. 2007. Effective Academic Writing 3 The Essay. Oxford
University Press.
Topics / Contents: The tutor should choose the teaching items that
:contain
1. Discussing topics on common themes like social traditions, current
affairs,etc.
2.Discussing films and TV programmes
3.Bargaining and negotiating the prices of commodities
4.Reporting an incident for emergency services
5.Giving and taking message
6.Making, accepting and rejecting suggestions
7.Necessary structures and vocabulary items for all the activities
mentioned above
:References
BBC English Conversation Practice
Doff, Adrian and Christopher Jones. Language<i n<UseJ<Cambridge:
C. U. P., 2004. Headway English Course
Student's Book: Craven, M. Real Listening & Speaking 1. "without answers"
Cambridge University Press, 2008.
Taylor, Grant. Engl i sh<Conver sat i on<Pr act i ceJ< New
Delhi: McGraw-Hill, 1983. Teacher's Book: Craven, M. Real Listening &
Speaking 1. "with answers" Cambridge University Press, 2008.
:Course Content
:The course covers the following
Modal Auxiliary Verbs
a) Ability
c) Permission
d) Possibility
e) Necessity
f) Obligation & probability
g) Requests, suggestions, offers and invitations
h) Predictions, refusals, decisions
i) Past forms of modal auxiliary 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.