This course deals with the sounds of English. It presents an overview of phonetics and the basic concepts, facts, assumptions, and issues of phonology. It helps students to use technical terms in describing speech, master the symbols used in phonetic transcriptions, and read the phonological literature. The approach emphasizes visual and auditory illustrations and practial applications. A course aiming at developing the ability to interact, orally through the medium of Egnlish, with emphasis on accuracy and fluency.
Materials are authentic and varied in terms of language forms, functions and topics.
This course introduces students to reading comprehension. Students at this stage are familiar with some reading techniques, though obviously they need to develop this skill further in terms of speed reading, prediction their grammatical knowledge and the other language skills of listening, speaking and writing. The acquisition of a rich vocabulary is one of the most important indicators of an adequate mastery of a language. Efforts in this course must be geared towards enriching both active and recognition vocabulary. All theree methods should be used concurrently.