ENG344 : 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. This course also provides vocabulary sentences with a set of activities related to improving and developing students' English language level. Students learn some important words and phrases, and it also provides students with information about vocabulary and how to use it in different circumstances, as well as ideas and techniques to help them learn vocabulary.

Intended learning outcomes

At the end of the course, the student must be able to:

1. Developing the skill in understanding terminology and the stages of vocabulary development.2. Make use of newly acquired vocabulary in conversation and in writing correct and meaningful sentences.3. Comprehend and comprehend the meanings of new words and vocabulary, classify them, search for their meanings, and include them in the formulation of correct-meaning sentences.

4 . Acquisition of basic communication skills through the amount of vocabulary acquired through the study of texts.

5. Developing his ability to use the correct foundations for understanding and analyzing terms and vocabulary of multiple use

Teaching and learning methods

The course will be presented to the student through lectures, panel discussions, or assignments and exercises, discussion and dialogue

Methods of assessments

Methods of evaluating students in this course

(class work 40% & final 60%)

Class work: is divided into written midterm, assignments and tasks

Written final exam

References

1. McCarthy & O'Dell. 2002. English Vocabulary in Use. Upper-intermediate. Cambridge University Press.

2. McCarthy & O'Dell. 2008. English Collocations in Use. Intermediate. Cambridge University Press.

3. McCarthy & O'Dell. 2008. English Phrasal Verbs in Use. Intermediate. Cambridge University Press.

4. McCarthy & O'Dell. 2008. English Idioms in Use. Cambridge University Press.

Main Contents of the Course
Scientific topics	Week	Readings / References / Notes
What is special about academic English	1
Key Adjectives	2
Phrasal verbs in academic English	3
Nouns and The words they combine with	4
Time	5
Talking about points of view	6
When and how idioms used	7
Aspects of vocabulary learning	8
Parts of speech (special problems)	9
Common metaphors in idioms	10
Clichés and fixed statements	11
Learning about collocations	12
Talking about meaning	13
Talking about meaning	14

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