| | Acquainting the students with the major concepts of English semantics such as sense, meaning, lexical relations, sentential relations, componential analysis, and semantic theory. Concepts like deep structure and semantic representations of sentence meaning, ambiguity, as well as the logic of natural languages are emphasized in this course.
| 2012 Fall | | | 2201224 English Linguistics (3 Credit hours)
An introduction to Linguistic Science: Its aims, aspects and relation to other social disciplines. Furthermore, the course aims at acquainting the students with the nature of human language, its characteristics, functions and components. A fairly detailed study of language components will be presented within the overall framework of modern linguistic theories, in articular the Structural and the Generative Schools. Throughout the course, emphasis will be on the components of English. | 2010 Fall |  | | 2201325 Pronunciation and Speech (3 Credit hours)
This course is designed to help learners improve their listening comprehension, correct their pronunciation, and reduce the foreignness in their speech. It focuses on consonants that are problematic for Arab learners, drills students on vowels and diphthongs, and trains them on rapid connected speech inclusive of stress patterns and intonation. Furthermore, it coaches them on how to give and convey greetings, make introductions, say goodbye, deal with language problems, ask for information, offer suggestions, give and accept opinions, express agreement and disagreement, extend formal and informal invitations, and display politeness in speech and in manners. The course also alludes to elements of culture that relate to inter-personal communication and to levels of formality in spoken language. | 2012 Spring | | | 2201737 Lexicology & Lexicography (3 Credit Hours)
This course aims at familiarizing students with the developing fields of lexicology and lexicography. It covers such topics as lexical sets, lexical selection, lexical relations, and componential features of lexical items. The course offers systematic training in the use of monolingual and bilingual dictionaries. The problems of translating lexical relations and collocations will also be investigated in this course. | 2010 Fall | | | 2201750 Semantics (3 Credit Hours)
This course introduces the theory of meaning in natural languages. Emphasis will be on topics related to reference, deixis, and paradigmatic sense relations: hyponymy, oppositeness and syntagmatic aspects of word meaning, ways of specifying word meaning, componential analysis, conceptual approaches, lexical fields and hierarchies.
| 2012 Spring | | | 2201747 Translation in the Fields of Science and Technology
(3 Credit Hours)
This course aims at giving the students basic competence in using idioms and terminology when dealing with texts in the areas of science and technology. Students will be familiarized with the principles of the identification and the formation of neologisms and scientific/technological terminology. Special emphasis will be placed on paying due regard for longer units of meaning and the cohesion of the conceptual structures in the texts selected for practical training such as computer science, information technology or other branches of scientific / technological knowledge.
| 2012 Fall | | | 2205215 Essentials of Public Speaking (3 credit hours)
The course aims at training students to develop self-confidence, use appropriate body language when speaking in public. It also trains them to speak both impromptu and from notes. Two genres of speech are emphasized: the informative and the persuasive. | 2013 Fall | | | 2205451 Computer-Assisted Language Learning (3 credit hours)
This course explores the effect of information technology on language teaching methodology. A broad range of computer-assisted language learning software is pedagogically and philosophically evaluated and extensive training is given in authoring CALL resources for teaching listening, speaking, reading, writing, vocabulary, and grammar. | 2010 Spring | | | 1505430 Research Methods in Linguistics (3 Credit Hours)
An introduction to linguistics research .Topics include : choosing a topic, taking notes, shaping and composing the project, using the library, developing skills in writing the biographical data (documentation and bibliography), practical illustrations from experimental studies in TESOL, phonetics, phonology and child language development focusing on hypothesis statement, data collection, results and conclusion. | 2009 Spring | | | This course introduces students to the history, the nature, the problems and the applications of machine translation. Special emphasis is laid on the contrastive, structural analysis of source and target language and how to resolve such problems (phonological, syntactic, lexical, etc.). In addition, students will be familiarized with the notion of context and the rhetorical dimension of texts. | 2013 Fall | | | The course looks at current research methods in translation. Its main objective is to offer guidance and training to students in the preparation of appropriate research proposals, especially for an MA thesis. Topics include the layout of a research report in translation, hypothesis statement, sampling, data gathering and analysis. The collected linguistic data may exemplify different fields of written translation and interpreting. Students are also expected to produce a short research paper applying the methods and skills they have learned. | 2013 Fall |
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