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ENGLISH GRAMMAR, COMPOSITION AND LITERATURE
English Language Proficiency Course (60 Hours)
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| I. OBJECTIVES |
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The course is designed
for students following English language for their basic needs
of comprehension and communication. ELPC is a four-year long
course of study for undergraduates. It focuses on acquiring
listening, speaking, writing and reading skills through classroom
teaching, situational learning and research. At the end of
this course, students are expected to achieve the following
goals:
- Be able to understand, infer and effectively express themselves
in English.
- Be able to use the language for personal, official, business
and public purposes.
- Be able to use the language with diction and style
- Be able to appreciate, analyze and evaluate English literature
against the Islamic concepts.
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| II.
CLASS CONTENT |
| First
Year |
| A. Reading Comprehension
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Extracting facts and
figures from English writing. |
B.
Writing Skills |
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1. Compressing and summarizing information,
short writings
2. Informal letters and reports
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C. Basics
of Grammar
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1. Tenses and Verb forms
2. Voices
3. Reported Speech
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| III. TEXTBOOKS |
| A. Required Text: |
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New Interchange Book
1, (student’s book + workbook) by Jack C. Richards
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| B. Supplementary
Texts: |
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English Grammar in
Use Intermediate level by Raymond Murphy
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| II.
CLASS CONTENT |
| Second
Year |
| A. Reading Comprehension
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Extracting facts and
figures from English writing. |
B.
Writing Skills |
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Formal letters and articles (basics of organized
writing) |
C. Basics
of Grammar
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1. Reported Speech
2. clauses
3. transformation of sentence patterns |
| D. Literature
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Six short stories of Muslim writers –
original or translation |
| III. TEXTBOOKS |
| A. Required Text: |
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New Interchange Book
2 (student’s book + workbook) by Jack C. Richards
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| B. Supplementary
Texts: |
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English Grammar in
Use Intermediate level (Second Edition without key) by Raymond
Murphy (Cambridge Uni. Press)
Anthology of Short stories – to be collected and prepared
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| II.
CLASS CONTENT |
| Third
Year |
| A. Reading Comprehension
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Extracting facts and
figures from English writing. |
B.
Writing Skills |
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Informative and descriptive writing |
C. Basics
of Grammar
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Editing and error analysis |
| D. Literature
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A novel / travelogue such as Road to Mecca by
M. Asad. |
| III. TEXTBOOKS |
| A. Required Text: |
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New Interchange Book
3, (student’s book + workbook) by Jack C. Richards
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| B. Supplementary
Texts: |
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Essentials of English,
by Gale Hopper
Road to Mecca by M. Asad
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| II.
CLASS CONTENT |
| Fourth
Year |
A.
Writing Skills |
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1. Narrative, 2. Argumentative,
3. Persuasive, and 4. Research paper |
| B. Literature
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Six essays and a play |
| III. TEXTBOOKS |
| A. Required Text: |
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Oxford Guide to Writing
and Speaking, by John Seely
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| B. Supplementary
Texts: |
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Anthology of Essays
– to be collected and prepared
A Play to be selected such as Naguib Mahfouz’s Palace
Walk
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