Language Skills

language Skill Credit Hours: 03 (3-0)

course code: EDUC-5110

Objectives:

This course aims to:

Groom the students in all four communication skills (reading, listening, writing, and speaking).
impart an understanding of the nature of the phenomenon of the four skills
Enable the student to make a practical usage of these skills in real life.

Learning Outcomes:

This course aims to:

·Groom the students in all four communication skills (reading, listening, writing, and speaking).
· impart an understanding of the nature of the phenomenon of the four skills
Enable the student to make a practical usage of these skills in real life.

Course Outline

Receptive Skills (Reading and Listening)

Reading Skill
1. What is reading?
2. Types of reading (intensive reading, extensive reading, skimming, scanning, loud reading, silent reading)
3. Techniques for reading
4. Reading comprehension and summarizing
5. Approaches to teaching reading
6. Increasing Reading Speed (Slides and OHP)
7. Faulty reading habits
Listening Skill
1. What is listening?
2. Types of listening
3. Real Life listening (purpose and expectations, response, visibility of the speaker. environmental clues)
4. Listening to EFL ( hearing the sounds, understanding intonation and stress, coping with redundancy and noise, using visual and environmental clues)
5. Techniques for Improving listening
Productive Skills (Writing and Speaking)
Writing Skill
1. What is writing?
2. Approaches to teaching writing
3. Creative and Imaginative writing
4. Paragraph writing and Essay writing
5. CV writing and job application writing
6. Writing a research Paper
7. Report writing
8. Brain storming
9. Punctuation
10. Speaking skill
  1. What is speaking?
  2. Approaches to teaching speaking
  3. Techniques for improving speaking
  4. Giving Presentations
  5. Role play
  6. Dialogue
  7. Simulations
  8. Problem solving exercises
11. Recommended Books
  
  Nuttall, C. (1996) Teaching Reading Skills in a Foreign Language. London:
  
  Heinemanan (1990). Listening in Language Learning. NY: Longman
  
  Underwood, M. (1990). ~aching listening. NY: Longman
  
  Bright, J.A. & Piggot, R. (1995). Handwriting. Cambridge: CUP
  
  Donn, B. (1999). Teaching writing skills. NY: Longman
  
  Donn, B. (2000) wall pictures for language practice: teacher's handbook. NY:
  
  Longman Dictation
  
  Hill, L.E. (1999) Sounds and spelling. Oxford: OUP Teaching Vocabulary
  
  John, H. (1998). Introduction to English language Teaching. Ny: Longman.
  
  Byrne, D. (1997). Teaching oral English. NY. Longman
  
  Rost, M. (1990). Listening in Language Learning. NY: Longman