Course Outline
English for Graduate Studies Students
1. Instructor's Information
| Instructor's / Coordinator's Name: | Instructors of English from Language Center |
| Office Hours: | To be arranged |
| Office and Phone: | Language Center offices |
| Email: | Languagecenter@aabu.edu.jo |
| Research and Teaching Assistant / Supervisor / Technical (if any): | |
2. Course Description
| The course is an intensive English language course which integrates the major skills of language (reading comprehension, structure/grammar, vocabulary, …….etc….) along with the different exercises. It teaches the ability in English language needed for study in an undergraduate academic program. This course is designed to provide MA and PhD students who do not pass in the English Equivalency Test with the indispensable language skills. |
3. Course Information
| Course No.: 9902505 | Course Title: English for Graduate Studies Students | Level: undergraduate studies |
| Course Type: Theory& language practice | Prerequisite: No pre-requisite courses | Class Time: |
| | Semester: 1st + 2nd + summer | Study hours: 6 |
4. Course Objectives:
| a- | The course is designed to help students develop the necessary language skills required for the English for graduate studies test. |
| b- | The course focuses on developing the students' structure, reading and comprehension, vocabulary strategies and critical thinking skills. |
| c- | The course includes a multitude of analytical exercises and “multiple answer" questions that reinforce students' language approach. |
5. Learning Outcomes
(Knowledge, Skills, and Competencies)
Upon successful completion of the course, the students will be able to:
1. develop strategies that will help them to activate existing language knowledge and connect it with new information. 2. develop strategies to identify subjects/verbs, subject/verb agreement, objects, objects of prepositions, appositives, present and past participles, and connectors in simple and complex sentences/clauses. 3. develop reading strategies such as skimming and scanning in a variety of texts in order to recognize the main ideas, the organization of ideas, stated and unstated details, pronoun referents,……etc….. 4. develop test taking strategies. |
6. Course Content
| Week | Subject |
| First | Grammar review: language structure exercises |
| Second | Structure: subject-agreement |
| Third | Structure: object of prepositions + exercises |
| Fourth | Structure: appositives + exercises |
| Fifth | Structure: present participle (adjective/verb forms)+ exercises |
| Sixth | Structure: Past participle (adjective/verb forms) + exercises |
| Seventh | Review : exercises + quiz |
| Eighth | Review: reading and comprehension |
| Ninth | Reading & Vocabulary: recognizing main ideas |
| Tenth | Reading: the topic and the organization of ideas |
| Eleventh | Review: structure and reading |
| | Mid-Term Exam |
| Thirteenth | Structure: sentences with multiple clauses and connectors |
| Fourteenth | Reading and Vocabulary: stated details+ unstated details + pronoun referents |
| Fifteenth | General Review: reading and structure exercises discussions |
| Sixteenth | Final Exam |
7. Teaching and Learning Strategies and Evaluation Methods
| No. | Learning Outcomes | Teaching Strategies | Learning Activities | Evaluation /Measurement Method (Exam/ presentations/ discussion/ assignments) |
| 1 | Structure of language | Grammatical analyses | Class exercises | Discussion, homework, tests |
| 2 | Structure of language | Recognizing correct/incorrect sentences | Class exercises | Homework, quiz, presentation |
| 3 | Structure of language | Analytical exercises | Working in pairs , class exercises | Homework, discussion, tests |
| 4 | Reading and comprehension | Analytical reading | Recognizing the main idea | Class reading, homework, discussion, tests |
| 5 | Reading and Vocabulary | Reading different passages with different topics | Recognizing stated/unstated details | Class reading, text analyses |
| 6 | Conversation and listening | Communication skills | Class dialogues | Talking about a given topic/presentation |
8. Assessment
| Methods Used | Assessment Time | Distribution of grades |
| 1- semester work (report, assignments, attendance) | During semester | 20% |
| 2- Mid-Term Exam | Twelfth week | 30% |
| 3- Final Exam | Week of the final exams | 50% |
9. Textbook
| Main Reference | Longman Complete Course for TOEFL Test: Preparation for the Computer and Paper Tests |
| Author | Deborah Phillips |
| Publisher | Addison-Wesley Longman, Inc. A Pearson Education Company |
| Year | 2001 |
| Edition | Inc. A Pearson Education Company |
| Textbook Website | http://epdf.pub/longman-complete-course-for the-toefl-test-preparation-for-the computer-and-pape.html |
10. Extra References (books and research published in periodicals or websites)
| 1- | Collins Vocabulary and Grammar for the TOEFL Test |
| 2- | Reading and Writing Barron's TOEFL iBT 15th Edition by Pamela J. Sharpe Ph. D, free Download. Full Book Set |
| 3- | https://www.academia.edu/31892876/Collins English for the TOEFL Test, Vocabulary and Grammar for the TOEFL Test by Ingrid Wisniewska Reviews |
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