Language Center

Course Outline

English for Graduate Studies Students

1. Instructor's Information

Instructor's / Coordinator's Name:	Instructors of English from Language Center
Office Hours:	To be arranged
Office and Phone:	Language Center offices
Email:	Languagecenter@aabu.edu.jo
Research and Teaching Assistant / Supervisor / Technical (if any):

2. Course Description

The course is an intensive English language course which integrates the major skills of language (reading comprehension, structure/grammar, vocabulary, …….etc….) along with the different exercises. It teaches the ability in English language needed for study in an undergraduate academic program. This course is designed to provide MA and PhD students who do not pass in the English Equivalency Test with the indispensable language skills.

3. Course Information

Course No.: 9902505

Course Title: English for Graduate Studies Students

Level: undergraduate studies

Course Type: Theory& language practice

Prerequisite: No pre-requisite courses

Class Time:

Semester:

1st + 2nd + summer

Study hours: 6

4. Course Objectives:

a-	The course is designed to help students develop the necessary language skills required for the English for graduate studies test.
b-	The course focuses on developing the students' structure, reading and comprehension, vocabulary strategies and critical thinking skills.
c-	The course includes a multitude of analytical exercises and “multiple answer" questions that reinforce students' language approach.

5. Learning Outcomes

(Knowledge, Skills, and Competencies)

Upon successful completion of the course, the students will be able to:

1. develop strategies that will help them to activate existing language knowledge and connect it with new information.

2. develop strategies to identify subjects/verbs, subject/verb agreement, objects, objects of prepositions, appositives, present and past participles, and connectors in simple and complex sentences/clauses.

3. develop reading strategies such as skimming and scanning in a variety of texts in order to recognize the main ideas, the organization of ideas, stated and unstated details, pronoun referents,……etc…..

4. develop test taking strategies.

6. Course Content

Week	Subject
First	Grammar review: language structure exercises
Second	Structure: subject-agreement
Third	Structure: object of prepositions + exercises
Fourth	Structure: appositives + exercises
Fifth	Structure: present participle (adjective/verb forms)+ exercises
Sixth	Structure: Past participle (adjective/verb forms) + exercises
Seventh	Review : exercises + quiz
Eighth	Review: reading and comprehension
Ninth	Reading & Vocabulary: recognizing main ideas
Tenth	Reading: the topic and the organization of ideas
Eleventh	Review: structure and reading
	Mid-Term Exam
Thirteenth	Structure: sentences with multiple clauses and connectors
Fourteenth	Reading and Vocabulary: stated details+ unstated details + pronoun referents
Fifteenth	General Review: reading and structure exercises discussions
Sixteenth	Final Exam

7. Teaching and Learning Strategies and Evaluation Methods

No.	Learning Outcomes	Teaching Strategies	Learning Activities	Evaluation /Measurement Method (Exam/ presentations/ discussion/ assignments)
1	Structure of language	Grammatical analyses	Class exercises	Discussion, homework, tests
2	Structure of language	Recognizing correct/incorrect sentences	Class exercises	Homework, quiz, presentation
3	Structure of language	Analytical exercises	Working in pairs , class exercises	Homework, discussion, tests
4	Reading and comprehension	Analytical reading	Recognizing the main idea	Class reading, homework, discussion, tests
5	Reading and Vocabulary	Reading different passages with different topics	Recognizing stated/unstated details	Class reading, text analyses
6	Conversation and listening	Communication skills	Class dialogues	Talking about a given topic/presentation

8. Assessment

Methods Used	Assessment Time	Distribution of grades
1- semester work (report, assignments, attendance)	During semester	20%
2- Mid-Term Exam	Twelfth week	30%
3- Final Exam	Week of the final exams	50%

9. Textbook

Main Reference	Longman Complete Course for TOEFL Test: Preparation for the Computer and Paper Tests
Author	Deborah Phillips
Publisher	Addison-Wesley Longman, Inc. A Pearson Education Company
Year	2001
Edition	Inc. A Pearson Education Company
Textbook Website	http://epdf.pub/longman-complete-course-for the-toefl-test-preparation-for-the computer-and-pape.html

10. Extra References (books and research published in periodicals or websites)

1-	Collins Vocabulary and Grammar for the TOEFL Test
2-	Reading and Writing Barron's TOEFL iBT 15^th Edition by Pamela J. Sharpe Ph. D, free Download. Full Book Set
3-	https://www.academia.edu/31892876/Collins English for the TOEFL Test, Vocabulary and Grammar for the TOEFL Test by Ingrid Wisniewska Reviews