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This course offers an up-to-date account of the main concerns,problems,theoretical and practical issues raised by foreign/ second language teaching and  acquisition research.Students will be provided with a comprehensive review in this area of applied linguistics,along with a critical overview of the major approaches,questions and hypotheses in areas central to second language theory and practice.We will dedicate a good part of the course to a study of SLA research as it applies to classroom learning and instruction.
2013/2014
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In this course,we are going to examine/discuss some basic concepts,theories,and analytical techniques used by contemporary semanticists in the study of meaning.Such  concepts and theories are related to both  semantics and pragmatics.Among the major concepts to be studied in the course are,kinds  and representations of meaning,implicature and explicature,the pragmatics of what's given such as presupposition,indexicality and deixis,propositional attitudes,complexities of referring expressions,compositionality,meaning relations,meaning and cognition,meaning and language comparison through translation,meaning and logic.Moreover,the practical part of the course includes excercises in truth conditions,quantifiers,,argument structure,and meaning relations such as paraphrase,contradiction ,incompatibility,…etc.
2013/2014
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This course aims at helping students to put to practical use their knowledge of Arabic and English by training them on different techniques of translating a variety of text types. The techniques incorporate skills related to contrastive text analysis, stylistics, lexicography and lexicology, contexts, register, equivalence, equivalent effect, translation shifts, genres, ideology, agents of power in translation, functional theories of translation,… .etc.
2013/2014
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2013/2014