A statement of what the student will know and be able to do as
the result of learning.
The General English Language Program (GELP) aims to achieve the
following broad objectives:
·
to
promote language communications skills.
·
to
speak more fluently in both formal and informal settings.
·
to
develop the learners' speaking and listening skills.
·
to
equip students with a variety of common and high frequency vocabulary.
·
to
practice reading for common, and factual information.
·
to
read university-level materials.
·
to
introduce elementary, upper elementary, intermediate and advanced grammatical
structures.
·
to
take good, clear notes at lectures.
·
to
develop the students’ writing skills at both the sentence, paragraph, and
academic essay levels.
·
to
equip the students with effective learning strategies and independent study
skills; and
·
to
develop the students’ skills in test taking strategies.
·
placing
quality as its most important goal in all activities and setting standards of
excellence in innovative curriculum design, teaching, professional development,
and international academic cooperation.
·
to
develop the students’ skills in test taking strategies.
·
placing
quality as its most important goal in all activities and setting standards of
excellence in innovative curriculum design, teaching, professional development,
and international academic cooperation.
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Learning Outcomes (course objectives):
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Listening Skills:
·
Upon
completion of the course students are expected to:
·
1.
Listening to main ideas.
·
2.
Listen for specific information.
·
3.
Make inferences
·
Speaking Skill:
·
Upon
completion of the course students are expected to:
·
1.
Ask for and give personal information,
·
2.
Confirm information,
·
3.
Give reasons,
·
4.
Start and end conversations; and give advice.
·
5-Show
interest.
·
6-Making,
accepting, and refusing invitations.
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Reading Skills:
-Upon
completion of the course students are expected to:
- be able to
guess meaning of words from context
- Identify
main ideas.
- Make
predictions.
- Follow text
directions.
- Identify
essay organization.
·
Become independent
readers.
·
Use academic
textbooks.
·
Use intuition and
knowledge of word structure and inference to select the meanings closest to the
words in italics in the phrases taken from the reading.
·
Identify synonyms
from parallel constructions.
·
Make inferences and
draw conclusion.
·
Paraphrase main
ideas.
·
Making inferences and finding implied ideas in passages.
·
Improve their reading speed and comprehension.
·
Involve in various classroom activities on reading: discussion,
negotiation, giving suggestion and making inferences.
- Improve
their visual perception of words and phrases.
- Improve
their ability of rapid and accurate eye fixations to get the general idea
about the whole reading selection.
Grammar Competency:
Upon
completion of the course students are expected to use the following grammatical
structures
With
focus on both form and meaning:
1.
The
present perfect tense
2.
The
present perfect tense / the present perfect continuous
3.
The
past perfect tense
4.
The
different forms of adjectives & adverbs-comparative/superlative
5.
The
passive voice
6.
Compare
things /people, using comparatives, superlatives
7.
Use
equal comparison: as….as
8.
Identify
count and non count nouns
9.
Recognize
simple, compound, and complex sentences