Specialization guide

Languages

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Common courses in this specialization

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Specialization guide

Basics of public communication

This course aims to develop the student’s self-confidence and to teach correct standing in front of the audience and the appropriate use of body language. It also trains students to improvise speeches, prepare and deliver, and focuses on two types of speeches: speeches aimed at presenting information and speeches aimed at convincing the listener.

Using computers in translation

This course aims to introduce students to information technology used in translation and discusses the following topics: machine translation, translation memories, terminology management, databases, linguistic repertoires, mechanization, parsing, and information extraction. It also defines the stages of translation, and reviews a sample of commercially available translation software.

Use of the English language

It focuses on understanding specific points in advanced conversations, reading texts focusing on different topics: such as business, global cultures, literature, and international communications, intensive listening, continuous training to improve pronunciation in the linguistic laboratory, and using the computer connected to the “Internet” to choose appropriate materials and practice on them.

Consecutive and simultaneous translation

This course aims to train students to translate short oral linguistic texts sequentially or immediately using the linguistic laboratory. During the course, difficulties are identified and ways to reduce and overcome them are suggested later.

Writing

This course aims to develop the student's writing skill by developing his ability to organize ideas and their logical sequence at the sentence, paragraph, and article levels. It also aims to train the student in basic writing skills and different types of writing.

Professional writing

This course aims to teach students professional writing, CV writing, CV design, selected CV models, CV writing methods, employment applications and documents: cover letters, business correspondence, letters related to rejecting or accepting applications, writing reports, meeting minutes, memos and other types of official correspondence.

English for business purposes

This course aims to introduce students to the English language used in the field of business administration, including structuring companies, meetings, submitting job applications and professional interviews, writing basic business correspondence, telephone calls, and social relations related to business administration.

English for journalism purposes

This course aims to train students in the methods of writing press and radio reports, listening to the news, adapting and monitoring televised news, reading serious newspapers daily, and developing the skills of conducting interviews, covering and editing news.

Study and research skills

This course aims to develop basic skills in collecting information, study skills, and linguistic research. It is particularly concerned with effective Internet research methods, time management, goal formulation, note-taking, critical reading, problems of research planning and application, and quantitative and qualitative research methods appropriate to linguistic phenomena.

Vocabulary building and verbal collocation

This course aims to introduce students to the basic principles of morphology, and discusses the main methods of constructing words such as derivation, borrowing, compounding, and conversion. It also addresses issues such as collocation, multiword units, semantic relationships, semantic change, and lexical types

English grammar

This course aims to introduce students to simple sentence structure, and trains them to analyze the sentence into its basic components in terms of category and grammatical function. It also pays special attention to simple, compound, and complex sentence types.

Advanced grammar in the English language

This course aims to introduce students to some advanced grammatical topics, such as compound and complex sentences, and nominal and adverbial sentences. It also focuses on sub-sentences that function as adjectives, subjunctive ones, and interjective and declarative sentences.

Introduction to linguistics

This course deals with the study of the branches of traditional knowledge of linguistics, the study of the origin of language, definitions of language, the study of the general principles of the semantic, grammatical and morphological levels of linguistic analysis, the emergence of linguistics and its development since the end of World War II, and the language of instruction is Arabic.

Related university programs

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UniversityProgramDegreeDurationStatus
Charisma UniversityMA in Education with TESOL EmphasisDegree program2 yearsVerified
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