This course aims to provide further insights into the nature and mechanics of contemporary spoken English. It also provides students with worthwhile opportunities to practice and improve their own spoken communicative skills in English through online discussions/debates, role-play activities, and interviews.
- Teacher: Said ALAmrani
- Non-editing teacher: Abdullah Humaid Wahaybi
- Enrolled students: 107
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: Dola Fayez Mohammed Gady
- Enrolled students: 146
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
- Teacher: Fouad Karnichi
- Enrolled students: 44
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
- Enrolled students: 95
This course aims to introduce students to the field of terminology management from both theoretical and implementation perspectives.
- Teacher: Rafik Al Jamoussi
- Teacher: Kais Amir Kadhim Alwan
- Enrolled students: 45