EL344 : Vocabulary Development

Department

Academic Program

Type

Elective

Credits

Prerequisite

Overview

This course aims at broadening students' lexis, develop new strategies in learning vocabulary, and use their lexical store to develop other skills in the study of the English language.

Intended learning outcomes

By the end of this course students will be able to:-

1. Strengthen the students’ skill in vocabulary development;.

2. Make use of their newly acquired vocabulary in correct and meaningful sentences;

3. Guide learners in formulating rules in using these new words..

Teaching and learning methods

Lectures and panel discussions

Methods of assessments

Written midterm exam 40

Written final exam 60

The course aims to cover the following:

1. Aspects of vocabulary learning

2. Phrase building

4. Parts of speech (special problems)

5. Functional vocabulary

6. Idioms and phrasal verbs

7. Aspects of variation

8. Learning about collocations

9. Working with academic vocabulary

GENERAL PSYCHOLOGY (GS100)
FOUNDATIONS OF EDUCATION (GS101)
PRINCIPLES OF COMPUTER 1 (CS100)
(EL102)
Reading comprehension 1 (EL103)
Listening and Speaking 1 (EL104)
(EL105)
Phonetics 1 (EL106)
(IS100)
GENERAL MATHEMATICS 1 (MM111)
Listening and Speaking 2 (EL109)
EVOLUTIONARY PSYCHOLOGY (GS200)
GENERAL TEACHING METHODS (GS201)
GENERAL MATHEMATICS 2 (MM112)
Phonetics 2 (EL111)
Writing 2 (EL110)
Reading Comprehension 2 (EL108)
Grammar 2 (EL107)
PRINCIPLES OF COMPUTER 2 (CS101)
Principles of Statistics (ST210)
Arabic Language 2 (AR101)
Arabic Language 3 (AR213)
(IS101)
EDUCATIONAL PSYCHOLOGY (GS203)
FOUNDATIONS OF CURRICULUM (GS202)
(EL216)
(EL112)
Grammar 3 (EL213)
(EL214)
Listening and Speaking 3 (EL215)
Reading Comprehension 4 (EL220)
(EL221)
Grammar 4 (EL219)
(EL218)
Theoretical Linguistics 2 (EL217)
EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH METHODS (GS301)
Creative Writing (EL328)
Arabic Language 4 (AR216)
Academic Writing (EL439)
ASSESSMENT AND EVALUATION (GS302)
Advanced listening and speaking (EL327)
Advanced Reading comprehension (EL326)
Applied Linguistics (EL223)
Grammatical Structure 1 (EL325)
SCHOOL MANAGEMENT (GS400)
TEACHING AIDS (GS303)
Research Methodology (EL450)
Translation (EL446)
Teaching Strategy 1 (EL440)
Grammatical Structure 2 (EL332)
Literature 2 (EL224)
Graduation Project writing (EL448)
(EL447)
Teaching English Language Skills (EL445)
English Varieties (EL443)
Computer Assisted Language Learning (EL442)
(GS401)
(EL345)
Vocabulary Development (EL344)
Practical education 2 (GS403)