This course is designed to provide further insights into the nature and mechanics of contemporary spoken English. Throughout the course, examples of naturally-occurring conversational English will be analyzed from a range of speech genres such as narratives, language-in-action, comment-elaboration, and service encounters. Various features of spoken English - deixis, fixed expressions, tailing, fronting, hedging, vague language and prosodic features are also be introduced and explored in this course. Additionally, the course includes a listening component in order to understand the significance of listening as a skill towards developing speaking skill. This provides students with worthwhile opportunities to practice and improve their own spoken communicative skills in English through in-class discussions/debates, role-play activities, interviews, listening activities and the telling of personal narratives.
- Teacher: Junifer Abatayo
- Teacher: Said ALAmrani
- Teacher: Said Old Account ALAmrani
- Teacher: Kristine De Leon Dacia
- Teacher: Mohsen Khedri
- Enrolled students: 198
This course builds on the previously covered areas in communication theories and workplace issues that students have been introduced to in ENGL3111. The course reinforces students’ understanding of workplace concepts and uses the same business environment for practice. Students do several business texts of relative difficulty and linguistic suitability
- Teacher: Bakhtiar Naghdipour
- Non-editing teacher: Abdullah Humaid Wahaybi
- Enrolled students: 202
The course introduces specialized technical translation. It exposes students to different types of texts relative to tourism and hospitality, culture and cultural activities, travelling and entertainment. Furthermore, the course provides a specific introductory focus on technical translation issues in the areas of technology and science. The course explores the lexicon relative to these topics with the objective of developing the necessary skills to deal with them at the levels of concepts, terminology and phraseology.
- Teacher: Raya Al Rajabi
- Teacher: Kais Amir Kadhim Alwan
- Enrolled students: 83
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The course builds on the analytical skills acquired in Linguistics-related courses LING2113 (Phonetics and Phonology), LING2213 (Morphology and Lexical Semantics), and LING3113 (Syntax and Structural Semantics). Specifically, the course provides students with further opportunities for applying their linguistic tools of analysis to English as used in its socio-cultural contexts. Several notions will be discussed such as differences between languages and (regional) dialects/accents, register, code-switching, language use in relation to gender and age or social identity, language, power, and education policy, etc. These will be covered with a view to comparing and contrasting with Arabic language and dialectal dimensions that may assist the student in language studies generally, translation in particular. |
- Teacher: Said ALAmrani
- Teacher: Dola Fayez Mohammed Gady
- Non-editing teacher: Said Old Account ALAmrani
- Non-editing teacher: Abdelkader Chaou
- Enrolled students: 274
This course provides students with an introduction to different theoretical and practical aspects of terminology of direct relevance to translation. It equally introduces them to the major terminology handling tools. It exposes students to principles of glossary building, terminology standardisation and different aspects related to terminology work and its impact on translation needs.
- Teacher: Rafik Al Jamoussi
- Non-editing teacher: Kais Amir Kadhim Alwan
- Enrolled students: 76