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Aims :
The courses will enable students to acquire:
reading skills including skimming and scanning.
wring skills including summarising, abstracting, notemaking.
the ability to pursue higher education through English.
a useful vocabulary of sufficient range.
Objectives:-
A
Receptivity
1-
Reading
on reading a text the student should be able to:
(i)
perceive its overall organization:
(ii)
discriminate between the main and the subordinate points and know how they inter
relate.
(iii)
distinguish between the direct and the implied meaning.
(iv)
discover the authors bias etc.
(v)
interpret tabular and diagrammatic presentation of information.
(vi)
examine critically advertisement and discard false and misleading information and
advertisements and speeches .
2-
Listening-
by the end of the course, students should be able to:
(a)
use linguistic and non-linguistic features of the context as due to understanding, interpreting
what is heard (eg. cohesion devices, keywords, intonation, gestures, back noises)
(b)
listen to a talk or conversation and understand the topic and main points.
(c)
listen for information required for a specific purpose, eg. in radio broadecast, commentaries,
airport and railway announcements.
(d)
distinguish main points from supporting details and relevant from irrelevant information.
(e)
understand and interpret messages conveyed in person or by telephone.
(f)
understand and respond appropriately to directive language eg. introduction advice, request
and warning etc.
(g)
understand and interpret spontaneous spoken discourse in familiar socical situation.
B
Expression
1-
Speaking -
by the end of the course, students should be able to:
(a)
speak intelligibly using appropirate word stress, sentence stress and intonation patterns.
(b)
convey ideas effectively according to purpose topic and audience (including the appopriate
use of polite expressions).
(c)
narrate incidents and events, real or imaginary in a logical sequence.
(d)
present oral reports or summarise make announcements clearly and confid