Course Specification: Academic Skills
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NQF Learning Domains And Course Learning Outcomes |
Course Teaching Strategies |
Course Assessment Methods |
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1.0 |
Knowledge |
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1.1 |
By the end of the course: Students will be able to use intensive and extensive reading skills for both fluency and accuracy. |
a. Class discussion b. Lectures c. Exercises and practice with different sentence structures and elements. D. Individual, pair and group work. |
a. Class exercises and writing assignments b. Mid terms c. Quizzes d. Final exam |
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1.2 |
Students will be able to develop and extensively use reading strategies like skimming, scanning and guessing words meaning from context. |
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1.3 |
Students will be able to use basic grammatical elements. |
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1.4 |
Students will be able to use English basic sentence structures. |
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1.5 |
Students will be able to use grammatical parts of speech, subject-verb agreement, types of sentences and modifier. |
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2.0 |
Cognitive Skills |
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2.1 |
Students will have the ability to improve spelling skills and ability to guess the meaning of unknown vocabulary. |
1- Exercises 2- Class discussions. 3- In-class group presentations. 4. Individual meeting. |
a. Exams. b. Class participation c. Quizzes d. Assignments |
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2.2 |
Students will have the ability to develop a vocabulary of high-used words and also to develop their writing taking into consideration aspects of grammar and vocabulary (e.g. vocabulary concerning describing places and people, adjectives, adverbs… etc). |
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2.3 |
Students will have the ability to recognize errors in sentence structures. |
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2.4 |
Students will have the ability to Write a well structured English sentence. |
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2.5 |
Students will have the ability to identify sentence elements and sentence types. |
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2.6 |
Students will have the ability to produce a variety of sentence structures. |
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3.0 |
Interactional Skills & Responsibility |
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3.1 |
Students will hand in assignments and exercises in due time. |
a. Incorporating teaching of basic meta-cognitive strategies of time management 2. Discussions 3. Individual counseling 4. In-class pair and group work where much of the most. |
a. Active class participation. b. Supervision of in-class. c. Exams. d. Quizzes |
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3.2 |
Students will participate in class as well as work individually and in groups. |
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3.3 |
Students will be able to use the necessary skills to communicate. |
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4.0 |
Communication, Information Technology, Numerical |
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4.1 |
Students will be able to use: 1. the internet to download information 2. available web links for practice 3. the internet to communicate with the teacher |
Students will be encouraged to make extensive use of material on the web |
Class participation Exercises Exams |
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5.0 |
Psychomotor |
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5.1 |
Not Applicable |
Not Applicable |
Not Applicable |
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