Course image ENG105 2209 Task Listening 2022/09 James Thayer
2022 - 2023

It's obvious that good listening is closely related to one's social and business dealings. This course aims to help students to discover how to listen to English effectively through exploring how to teach listening well so that they can listen to English more effectively and precisely while developing the various skills needed for successful listening comprehension. This course explains the ins and outs of what good listening skills the students should master.The content of this course is designed for learners of English with good foundation of English language. It includes all kinds of backgrounds of English speaking. The students will also be instructed how to extract main ideas, how to identify and understand for specific information, how to understand English with different accents, how to predict, how to check comprehension, how to infer, how to deal with unfamiliar words, how to link ideas, how to understand content from different cultures.

Course image Academic Writing 2022/09 2222003
2022 - 2023

This course introduces students key principle of effective and efficient academic writing. It provides techniques, guidelines and suggestions to improve students' academic writing. Argumentation in different academic disciplines, particularly social sciences will be highlight in this course. Students will learn to make claims, provide evidence, explore underlying assumptions and anticipate and make counter arguments based on the audiences the writing or visuals are for. This course will give students hands-on experience in drafting, organizing and revising academic writing. They will learn about making their writing or visuals audience-centered.

Course image Linguistics and Its Theories 2022/09 2222003
2022 - 2023

his course introduces students the scientific study of human language and the development of lingistic theory. It examines the history behind English being developed into the world's lingua franca. It covers the structure of language such as language planning, maintenance of language and language loss. It examines main linguistic theories from Sapir-Whorf's hypotheses to theories like Generative grammar and Functional Grammer. Students will be able to not only examine their own language and learning of the second and even third language but also get better understanding of the linguistic concepts.