ENG341 : Teaching English Language Skills

Department

Department of English Language

Academic Program

Bachelor in English

Type

Elective

Credits

02

Prerequisite

ENG334

Overview

This course is the essential guide for students as trainees for language teaching. It helps them understand how to teach English as a foreign language. The course will provide students with the tools, strategies and knowledge they need to be successful as English language teachers of both adults and young learners.

This course shows students how to teach pronunciation, vocabulary, and grammar. It also provides students with basic classroom suggestions for teaching the basic skills: listening, speaking, reading and writing. Then students are introduced to teaching young learners, business English and one-on-one teaching.

Intended learning outcomes

The course aims to:

Introducing the student to how to teach pronunciation skills, vocabulary and English grammar.

Introducing the student to how to teach the four language skills (listening, speaking, reading and writing).

Training students on how to teach language skills in an appropriate virtual environment.

Raising students' performance and qualifying them as teachers of English as a foreign language and making them more competitive in the labor market

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.

Final exam is in a form of written exam.

References.

. Harmer, J. 2007. How to teach English. Longman.

Ur, P. 1991. A Course in Language Teaching. Practice and theory. Cambridge University Press.

Celce-Murcia, M. (Ed) 2001. Teaching English as a Second or a Foreign Language

Main Contents of the Course

Scientific topics

Week

Readings / References / Notes

1 Teaching Pronunciation

a. What does teaching pronunciation involve?

b. Listening to accents

c. Improving learners' pronunciation

d. Pronunciation and spelling

1

Teaching vocabulary and phrases

a. What is vocabulary and what needs to be taught?

b. Presenting new vocabulary

c. Remembering vocabulary

d. Vocabulary work in the classroom

2

3. Teaching Grammar

a. What is grammar?

b. The place of grammar teaching

c. Grammatical terms

d. Presenting and explaining grammar

e. Grammatical mistakes

3

Mid 1 Exam

4

5. Teaching speaking

a. Reasons for teaching speaking

b. Successful oral fluency practice

c. The functions of topic and task

d. Discussion activities

6

e. Other kinds of spoken interaction

f. Role play and related techniques

g. Correcting speaking

h. What teachers do during a speaking activity?

7

6. Teaching reading

a. Reasons for reading

b. How do we read?

c. Beginning reading

8

d. Types of reading activities

e. Improving reading skills

f. Advanced reading

9

7. Teaching writing

a. Reasons for teaching writing

b. Written versus spoken text

c. Teaching procedures

10

d. Tasks that stimulate writing

e. The process of composition

f. Correcting written work

g. Handwriting

11

Teaching business English8

12

9. Teaching one-on-one

13

10. Video lessons of teachers in action

14

General Psychology (EPSY 100)
Fundamentals of Education (EPSY101)
Phonetics1 (ENG106)
Writing 1 (ENG105)
Listening&Speaking 1 (ENG104)
Reading Comprehension 1 (ENG103)
Grammar 1 (ENG102)
computer 1 (CS100)
Arabic language 1 (AR103)
Computer 2 (CS101)
General Teaching Methods (EPSY 201)
Arabic language 2 (AR104)
English Grammar 2 (ENG107)
Reading Comprehension 2 (ENG108)
Listening & Speaking 2 (ENG109)
Writing 2 (ENG110)
Phonetics 2 (ENG111)
Developmental Psychology (EPSY 203)
Educational Psychology (EPSY 200)
Basics Of Curriculums (EPSY 202)
Principles of statistics (ST100)
Theoretical Linguistics 1 (ENG217)
writing 3 (ENG215)
Listening&Speaking 3 (ENG214)
Reading Comprehension 3 (ENG213)
English Grammar 3 (ENG212)
Arabic language 3 (AR105)
Measurements and Evaluation (EPSY 302)
Research Methods (EPSY301)
Creative writing 1 (ENG327)
Quranic Studies 1 (AR101)
English Grammar 4 (ENG218)
Reading Comprehension4 (ENG219)
Listening & Speaking 4 (ENG220)
English Literature 1 (ENG222)
Theoretical Linguistics 2 (ENG223)
Applied Linguistics 1 (ENG328)
Quranic studies2 (AR102)
Arabic language 4 (AR106)
Psychological Health (EPSY 401)
Teaching learning Aids (EPSY 303)
Grammatical Structures1 (ENG324)
Advanced Reading 1 (ENG325)
Academic Writing (ENG440)
Advanced Listening&Speaking 1 (ENG326)
Methods of Teaching (ENG334)
Computer Assisted Language Learning (ENG340)
Psycholinguistics (ENG329)
Grammatical Structures 2 (ENG330)
Advanced Reading 2 (ENG331)
Creative Writing 2 (ENG333)
Applied Linguistics 2 (ENG335)
Strategies1 (ENG336)
Vocabulary Development (ENG344)
Teaching English Language Skills (ENG341)
History and Varieties of English (ENG447)
Translation (ENG446)
Teaching English to Young Learners (ENG345)
English Literature2 (ENG342)
Strategies 2 (ENG442)
Research Methods in English Language Teaching (ENG343)
Graduation Project (ENG448)
Teaching Practice (EPSY 402)