Course Description:
This course is designed to enhance and enrich students’ English language proficiency. In this Intermediate-level course,
students learn strategies for learning English vocabulary. Students work to expand their core vocabulary by studying
words commonly used in conversation, reading, and writing. Students learn pronunciation, spelling and common
collocations. In addition, students learn common suffixes for the major parts of speech, and learn to recognize related
words. This course is designed around a corpus and teaches the most frequently used words from the General Service
List and Academic Word List. It presents each word in different contexts to help students learn and remember the word
easily.
Course Objectives:
- Improve their ability to analyse elements of a good sentence
- Use induction for understanding the minimum essentials of the English sentence
- Evolve into autonomous users of the language through advanced grammar, syntax, and various writing and
reading activities.
- Acquire and grasp the necessary language tools of grammar and vocabulary, and deal with long and highly
sophisticated passages to enrich their vocabulary.