This course introduces students to the key principles of effective and efficient academic writing. It provides techniques, guidelines and
suggestions to improve students' academic writing. Argumentation in difference academic disciplines, particularly social sciences will be
highlighted in this course. Students will elarn to make claims, provide evidence, explore underlying assumptions, 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,
organising and revising academic writing. They will learn about making their writing or visuals audience-centered.
Nursyahirah binti Saiful Maznan/nursyahirah.saifulmaznan@xmu.edu.my
This course introduces students to the key principles of effective and efficient academic writing. It provides techniques, guidelines and
suggestions to improve students' academic writing. Argumentation in difference academic disciplines, particularly social sciences will be
highlighted in this course. Students will elarn to make claims, provide evidence, explore underlying assumptions, 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,
organising and revising academic writing. They will learn about making their writing or visuals audience-centered.
Nursyahirah binti Saiful Maznan/nursyahirah.saifulmaznan@xmu.edu.my
This course introduces students to the key principles of effective and efficient academic writing. It provides techniques, guidelines and
suggestions to improve students' academic writing. Argumentation in difference academic disciplines, particularly social sciences will be
highlighted in this course. Students will elarn to make claims, provide evidence, explore underlying assumptions, 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,
organising and revising academic writing. They will learn about making their writing or visuals audience-centered.
Nursyahirah binti Saiful Maznan; nursyahirah.saifulmaznan@xmu.edu.my
Students would be able to:
- Explore and enhance the strategies and vocabulary for reading & understanding academic texts
- Gather a range of information from credible sources and utilise research skills in producing good writing pieces
- Build on language skills for a variety of language functions
This course equip the students with reading strategies and critical reading skills.
Teaches some British and American Novels and Short Stories
| 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 Enlish effectively through exploring how to teach listening well so that they can listen to English more effectively and precisly 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 Eglish 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. |
Lecturer name: Nursyahirah binti Saiful Maznan
Course timeline: Week 1 - Week 15
| This course introduces students to the key principles of effective and efficient academic writing. It provides techniques, guidelines and suggestions to improve students' academic writing. Argumentation in difference academic disciplines, particularly social sciences will be highlighted in this course. Students will elarn to make claims, provide evidence, explore underlying assumptions, 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, organising and revising academic writing. They will learn about making their writing or visuals audience-centered. |
Lecturer name: Nursyahirah binti Saiful Maznan
Course Timeline: Week 1 - Week 15
Course Summary:
Morphology deals with the internal structure of words and their meaningful parts. Syntax is concerned with sentence structure - how words are combined together to form phrases, phrases combined together to form larger phrases, clauses and sentences, and how clauses are combined together to form complex sentences. Together, morphology and syntax comprise the core of the grammar of a language. The course will be practical in focus and will teach students essential skills for the linguistic description and analysis of a language. This course introduces the students to the main concepts in morphology and syntax and applies these concepts to English words and structures. The morphology part of the course focuses on basic distinctions in word structure, such as the different types of morphemes and word formation processes. The student will also be able to represent the (hierarchical) structure of words using tree diagrams. The syntax part of the course introduces parts of the Minimalist approach - the current widely used syntactic theory. The students will be introduced to the basic concepts of this theory and they will be trained to apply these concepts in analysing English sentences.
Lecturer name: Nursyahirah binti Saiful Maznan
Course Timeline: Week 1 - Week 15