Mission Statement:

This course is meant for second year student teachers whose English proficiency levels range from lower to upper inter mediate. The course aims at enhancing the students’ skills in reading, writing, speaking and listening to help them become more accurate and fluent in using the language in order to cope with the demanding literature courses and to become more proficient teachers after graduation.

Curriculum Philosophy:

The curriculum is built on the premise of students’ self-directed, interactive and communicative learning. Through out the course the teacher’s role will be that of a facilitator and a moderator but hardly ever a lecturer.

Course Objectives:

Technical Objectives:

By the end of the course, students should be able to:

• Identify the basics of
  • keyboarding
  • file management
  • word processing
• Improve their typing skills
• Explore reference software tools e.g. language software , dictionaries & encyclopedias
• Use the World Wide Web critically
• Write email messages
• Use relevant software for the organization of ideas e.g. Inspiration

Language objectives:

By the end of this course students should be able to:

Listening

• Listen for gist
• Listen for specific information (scanning)
• Listen for details
• Listen to distinguish sounds
• Identify different intonation patterns
• Take notes

Speaking

• Make debates and hold discussions
• Prepare and present formal and informal presentations
• Produce grammar structures correctly in spoken language

Reading

• Read for specific details
• Read for main ideas
• Read critically
• Distinguish between fact and opinion
• Distinguish between fiction and non-fiction genres
• Guess meaning of words from context
• Make inferences and predictions

Writing

• Edit for language mechanics using Microsoft Word
• Write email messages
• Outline ideas coherently
• Chat using a chatting tool

N.B. This is a 36-hour course which stretches across two semester of 18 hours each. All CALL activities will revolve around two themes across the 2 semesters: Culture and Humor.