Academic English Language UNI 1302

Course description:

This course is designed to refresh students’ memory in the 4 language skills through displaying a wide variety of authentic text types and challenging tasks. The adapted reading texts have been chosen to stimulate students to react and respond effectively with confidence as each unit contains grammar, vocabulary and pronunciation. The text aims to give further practice on the above mentioned skills required at university level, however listening and speaking skills will be given more attention to enhance these 2 skills through the use of the communicative approach.The course also provides students with considerable range of different advanced activities on vocabulary, grammar and writing in general.In brief, it aims to increase students’ knowledge, vocabulary and improve their skills equally in the 4 English language skills.

Course Aims:

The course aims to enable students to:
  • Practice extra activities on the 4 language skills through employing daily life situations in class.
  • Realize the value of the English language and appreciate its benefit in all fields of study. 
  • Revise a great amount of previous vocabulary students have already learnt.
  • Help students increase and extend their vocabulary to consolidate the writing activities.
  •  Promote their reading skills through reading interesting subjects and doing motivating tasks.
  • Revise the main grammatical structures in English students previously learnt.
  • Do variety of writing activities to improve their writing skills.
  • Create new words by adding prefixes and suffixes and some other processes of lexical derivation.
  • Do writing exercises on spelling, punctuation and connecting expressions.
  • Know what to say in typical social situations. 

Course outcomes:

At  the end of the course students are expected to be able to:
  • Speak English, to some extent, with confidence.
  • Use and practice the language in different social situations. 
  • Get better reading comprehension skills to improve their reading abilities to read clearly and carefully.
  • Master the given rules of grammar.
  • Do written tasks free from grammatical mistakes.
  • Achieve noticeable progress in the 4 English language skills. 
  • Use and function the English language skills with more confidence.
  • Prioritize the first 2 skills while learning the language.