This course is designed to familiarize students with fundamental methods in English language teaching and learning. It equips students to analyze and assess different teaching learning scenarios and choose the best possible method or combination of multiple methods to bring out the maximum measurable outcomes. Importantly, it develops students’ critical reflection on teaching and learning scenarios through peer teaching.
Course Catalogue
Course Code: ENG 3212
Course Name:
Methodology of Language Teaching
Credit Hours:
3.00
Detailed Syllabus:
Course Code: ENG 3213
Course Name:
English in the Workplace
Credit Hours:
3.00
Detailed Syllabus:
This course will examine the different styles and systems of language used in the English language workplace. In this course students will learn different linguistic approaches to analyze the language used in the workplace(s). Knowledge of sociolinguistics, semantics, and pragmatics and composition is crucial to understand the topics discussed in this course.
Course Code: ENG 3215
Course Name:
Classroom Techniques (pre-requirement for Teaching Practicum)
Credit Hours:
3.00
Detailed Syllabus:
This course offers students the opportunity to develop critical awareness on fostering learning in classrooms. It addresses a number of practical factors - lesson plans, classroom layout, seating arrangement, teachers-students role, student-student role, classroom behaviour and most importantly specific learning needs - to maximize learning in the classroom.
Course Code: ENG 3216
Course Name:
Teaching Reading and Writing
Credit Hours:
3.00
Detailed Syllabus:
This course aims to familiarize students with principles of teaching and learning in reading and writing. It intends to provide a comprehensive guide with tools and knowledge for pre-service teachers to teach reading and writing while meeting diverse learning needs of students. It also contributes in students’ understanding through critical analysis of materials, approaches and assessment in the domains of reading and writing.
Course Code: ENG 3217
Course Name:
Teaching Listening and Speaking
Credit Hours:
3.00
Detailed Syllabus:
This course offers students to teach the English Essential Skills: Listening and Speaking techniques in order to aid in students’ comprehension. For the course, students are exposed to updated theories and materials for teaching, listening and speaking, perhaps aided with authentic English audio files in the form of conversations, radio broadcasts and other aural sources of information.
Course Code: ENG 3218
Course Name:
Stylistics
Credit Hours:
3.00
Detailed Syllabus:
Stylistics is considered an applied field of linguistics that explains techniques of literary analysis. The aim of this course is to study the literary works, the techniques of linguistics and literature and the relationship between linguistics and literature. It will study in-depth methods and techniques used by writers in their writings to create particular effects with language.
Course Code: ENG 322
Course Name:
English in the Workplace
Credit Hours:
3.00
Detailed Syllabus:
The aim of this course is to focus on the language needed to conduct core professional skills such as communicating on the telephone confidently, participating effectively in meetings, making clear presentations, conducting negotiations and discussions, writing professional reports, emails and letters. This course will examine the different styles and systems of language used in the English language workplace. It will explore various forms such as speeches, letters/memos and e-mail.
Course Code: ENG 3304
Course Name:
South Asian Literature
Credit Hours:
3.00
Detailed Syllabus:
Students will be introduced to great works of South Asian Literature in English, which is one of the most vibrant of the new literatures. Fiction, poetry and prose from the Twentieth Century onwards will be covered.
Course Code: ENG 331
Course Name:
Epics of World Literature
Credit Hours:
3.00
Detailed Syllabus:
This course explores some of the remarkable classical Greek and Roman Epics (long Narrative) in English translation. Students will receive a comprehensive understanding of the themes and motifs of these epics and catch glimpses of the sensational and adventurous heroic exploits of superhuman heroes, and the process of humanizing the supernatural and the divine.
Course Code: ENG 332
Course Name:
Greek Tragedies
Credit Hours:
3.00
Detailed Syllabus:
This course on ancient Greek classics in English translation, preferably in Penguin editions, will focus on demonstrating the linkages in themes and forms in literature from the ancient time to the modern.