Help students master the basic skills of reading comprehension

Develop their comprehension competence and understanding. of lexical and idiomatic difficulties as a first step in developing their reading skills and strategies in  real-life situations;

A précis is a shortening, in your own words, of a text of written work. You are to describe as accurately and briefly as possible the substance or main ideas contained in a text. 
One of the first (if not the first) difficulties to overcome in writing a précis is getting the facts straight. You should make no statements unsupported by the text. Make sure that all you say about the text is factually correct. 

The précis (pronounced pray-see) is a type of summarizing that insists on an exact reproduction of the logic, organization, and emphasis of the original texts

Selection of material that must be motivating and cognitively appealing to the student in terms of content and culture

•  :Linguistic difficulties: Lexis, structure,
• FOCUS : a- Lexis: training in 1- recognition of prefixes, homographs (faux amis); 2- word formation and derivation; 3- synonymy/ antonymy;
•                 b-Structure: 1-identification of link words; 2-out of passage links; 3- omission of parts of words and functional structures; sense grouping (structural grouping activity); core sentence in dense structures.( the activity would involve grammatical elements such as noun/verb modifiers, re- Selection of material that must be motivating and cognitively appealing to the student in terms of content and culture

 :Linguistic difficulties: Lexis, structure,

FOCUS : a- Lexis: training in 1- recognition of prefixes, homographs (faux amis); 2- word formation and derivation; 3- synonymy/ antonymy;

                b-Structure: 1-identification of link words; 2-out of passage links; 3- omission of parts of words and functional structures; sense grouping (structural grouping activity); core sentence in dense structures.( the activity would involve grammatical elements such as noun/verb modifiers, re-placement of noun and apposition etc.

Lexical and idiomatic difficulties

• What_is_the_essence_of_a_précis?">What is the essence of a précis?
• How to write a précis?
• Do's and Don'ts of Précis Writing

• Baccalaureate
• A good command of  English

• To consolidate the student’s skills in composition and paragraph writing
• To initiate the student to Description, Narration, and process in writing. The focus will be more on the activity of writing than on theoretical lecturing

COURSE CONTENT :

• Introduction: Course Objectives and Expectations
• Sentence Structure and Punctuation
• Unity in the Paragraph
• Coherence in the Paragraph
• Mid-Term Examination
• Methods of Development
• Processes involved in Paragraph Writing
• Précis Writing and Sentence Combining
• Note Taking

Final Examination  

• How to write a précis?
• Do's and Don'ts of Précis Writing

• Baccalaureate
• A good command of  English

• L’objectif

To introduce the student to the basics of English grammar, the mechanics of sentence logic in English, and the connection between grammar and cultural meaning

• Introduction: Course Description & Methodology
• Articles
• Prepositions
• Tenses
• Midterm
• Conditionals 
• Tenses and Conditionals in Context 
• Conjunctions 
• Adjectives
• Adverbs 
• Review 
• final

• Baccalaureate
• A good command of  English

• L’objectif

• To develop students’oral skills and to expose them to the  different English accents
• To develop the skill of phonetic transcription

• International phonetic alphabet (IPA):
• Speech Organs:
• Pronunciation and transcription:
• Transcription drills
• Functions

• Baccalaureate
• A good command of  English

• L’objectif
• To introduce students to the major elements of poetry, drama, and fiction.
• To help them develop an appreciation of literature and the ability to interpret it

• Week One & Two 
• Week Three to Six 
• Week Seven to Nine
• Week ten to twelve
• The Short Story

• Baccalaureat
• Avoir un bon niveau en langue française

• to study, to summarize ideas, to skim texts, to take notes in class, to outline a topic.
• gain skills in study and time management strategies
• develop independent learning skills
• develop an understanding of the process of being critical and analytical in their studies
• develop reflective learning skills
• learn, interact and work co-operatively with other students and experience the peer learning process

•  Study Management
• Research Skills
• Examination Skills
• revision techniques

• Baccalaureat
• Baccalaureate
• A good command of  English

• Baccalaureate
• A good command of  English

• Help the students overcome lexical, idiomatic and structural difficulties as a first step in developing their reading skills and strategies;
• Enable the students to acquire the skills of skimming, scanning, previewing anticipating as  necessary reading tools of varied materials
• A take-home and library activity is designed to enhance the student’s reading habit and skill self development

Selection of material that must be motivating and appealing to the student in terms of content and culture

Review :Linguistic difficulties: Lexis, structure, idiom

 a- Lexis: 3- synonymy/ antonym; 4- deducing meaning from context (inferencing)

 b-Structure: 1-identification of link words; 2-out of passage links; 3- omission of parts of words and functional structures; sense grouping (structural grouping activity); core sentence in dense structures.( the activity would involve grammatical elements such as noun/verb modifiers, re-placement of noun and apposition etc

• Baccalaureate
• A good command of  English

• To consolidate the student’s skills in composition and paragraph writing.
• To initiate the student to Description, Narration, and process in writing. The focus will be more on the activity of writing than on theoretical lecturing.

Course Content:

• Introduction: Objectives and Expectations of The Course
• Transitional Devices
• Conciseness
• Narration
• Mid-Term Examination
• Parallelism
• Use of Modifiers
• Physical Description
• Function Description
• Process Description
• Final Examination

• Baccalaureate
• A good command of  English

It builds on the course Grammar I (ES S1M3 (E1)), and allows the student to study the rules of English grammar in more depth. Focus is on more complicated sentence structures and logic in English, and the connection between grammar, tense/time, and cultural meaning.

• Introduction
• Modals
• Midterm
• Passive Voice
• Reported Speech
• Relative Clauses
• General Review 
• Final  Test

• Baccalaureate
• A good command of  English

• to familiarize students with basic communication theory
• to encourage learning by participation, discussion, and reflection
• to assist students in conducting research, writing, and verbally presenting ideas
• to enhance speaking skills of an interpersonal and public nature

• To Pronounce vowels and consonants clearly
•  To practice pronunciation and learn basic presentation skills
•  To practice discussion skills
•  To achieve greater confidence in speaking

• Baccalaureate
• A good command of  English

To provide the student with cultural background and a wide range of cultural content of Western & Moroccan culture.

• Introduction
• Stories of the Universal Creation
• The Christian Tradition
• The Greek Tradition
• The Norse Tradition
• The Babylonian Tradition
• Mid-Term Exam
• Stories of the Fall of Man
• Stories of the Flood
• The Olympian Gods
• The Tower of Babel
• Transformation
• Heroic Saga
• Biblical Heroes
• Moroccan Culture
• Final exam

• Baccalaureate
• A good command of  English

To consolidate the student’s knowledge of the business world and the mechanisms that govern the world of business. After completion of the course, the student should  be able to

• Write and reply to enquiries and requests.
• Write a resume and application letter and prepare for job interviews.
• Write letters that create good will to customers and clients.
• Gather and organize information for a report.
• Prepare letters and reports that meet professional standards of format, presentation and style.

• Introduction to writing for the world of work
• Introducing yourself (the language of introduction)
• Letter-Writing Strategies :
• Layout and Design
• Inquiry/Request Letters
• Response Letters
• Good-News Letters
• Bad-News Letters
• Covering Letters
• Résumés
• Layout
• Organisation
• Telephone calls
• Language specific to telephone calls
• Role play
• Reports
• Gathering information for a report
• Layout
• Style
• Preparing your Assignment
• Presentation techniques

• Baccalaureate
• A good command of  English

• Baccalaureate
• A good command of  English

• Expose the students to collection of Short stories, collection of  poems in view of building up the skill of reading to cultivate their literary competence
• Enable them to keep record  and take notes of their reading: plot summery, character analysis, difficult lexis and structure, brief class talks and discussions,
• (analyze, argue, compare, discuss describe, summarize) , brainstorm ideas (organize , classify them, writing draft, reviewing and proofreading,
• monitoring the language, coherence, clearness, and effectiveness
• guide, follow up and evaluate the students’ home-reading assignments

• Collection of Short stories, collection of  poems & articles
• record keeping and taking notes of the students’ reading; book reviews and literary commentary.
• Steps to literary précis
• Take notes while reading, especially when reading nonfiction. The topic sentences of nonfiction articles can be collected and will form the skeleton of the précis.
• When reading fiction, look for the plot structure: exposition, inciting moment, crisis, moment of final suspense, and denouement. These events constitute a précis of a story.
• Identify the conflict(s) in the story. Include only those things which develop and/or resolve the conflict.
• Avoid interjecting personal opinions.

Validation du module 1

 To teach advanced composition skills; focus is on the skills of expository and argumentation writing. The student should be able now to move beyond the paragraph

• Parts of the Essay and their Functions
• Discovering and Organizing Ideas
• Writing the Introduction
• Writing the Conclusion
• Communicating Ideas to the Reader
• Mid-Term Examination
• Writing to Inform
• Writing to Define
• Writing to Explain
• Writing to Persuade
• Final Examination

Validation du module 2

•  To consolidate the knowledge of grammar and logical structures.
• To allow the student to handle long texts with complex grammar structures and to generate grammatically correct sentences with much ease and fluency.

• Sentences

• Parts of the Sentence
• Sentence Types and Fragment

• Phrases I   

• Noun Phrases
• Verb Phrases
• Participial Phrases

• Mid-Term Exam
• Phrases II   

• Gerund Phrases
• Prepositional Phrases
• Infinitive Phrases

• Clauses                                                                                                             

• Noun Clauses
• Adjective Clauses
• Adverbial Clauses
• Final Exam

Validation du module 3

• to develop the students’ communicative   performance;
•  to enable them to prepare a variety of relevant speeches and deliver them in a professional way.

• Introduction to Speech Communication
• Effective Speech Delivery   
• Types of  Delivery

• Impromptu
• Extemporaneous

• Informative Speaking 
• Preparing your Message 

• Analyzing the Audience and Occasion
• Finding the Topic and Writing Purposes
• Gathering Information
• Organizing and Outlining
•  Practicing Properly

• Presenting Information Effectively 

• Verbal Support Materials
• Demonstrations and Other Visual Aids
• Language and Style

• Practice: Students’ Speeches and Exams

Validation de module 4

• To introduce the student to the major characteristics of British culture and society and the different institutions (from educational institutions to political parties and government)
•  To introduce the student to the major characteristics of American culture and society as it has affected the world during the last century.

• British culture & Society

1. Early Britain Until The 18^th Century
2. The Victorian Age
3. Protest and Reform
4. Domestic and Foreign Policy
5. The Empire
6. The Great War
7. Between the Wars
8. The 2^nd World War
9. The Commonwealth
10. The Educational System
11. Social and Political Life
12. The Monarchy

• American Culture & Society 

1. Defining Culture/American Culture
2. Native American Culture
3. The Building of the American Nation
4. The Political System of The US
5. Modern America and The World

Validation de Module 5

• To introduce students to translation theory and train them to translate from Arabic to English and vice versa.
• To upgrade English and Arabic proficiency.
• To improve students language skills.
• Encourage students to check and increase their vocabulary stock in two languages English and Arabic
• To familiarize students with the translation metalanguage as well as promoting its use (through class room discussion, research, assignments, group projects and commentaries).

• Introduction to translation as art and science
• Theoretical Background of Translation
• Analytical Background
• Salient Characteristics of English and Arabic
• Mid-Term Exam
• More Practice: Translation of Selected Texts

Validation de Module 6

• Expose the students to short novels, poetry and plays in view of enhancing the skills of reading to cultivate their literary competence
• Enable them to keep record of their advanced reading for plot summery, character study, literary language, brief class talks and discussions,
• Attend to the students’ learning of the writing skills of  literary and argumentative essays: topic

Modern Drama

• O'Neill, Eugene. Long Day's Journey into Night
• Mid-Term exam
• Shaw, B. Pygmalion and Major Barbara
• Miller, Arthur. All My sons
• Final Exam

Modern Poetry

• Poetic Terminology
• Metaphysical Poetry
• Romantic Poetry
• Emily Dickinson:
• Philip Freneau

Validation de Module 8

• To consolidate the student’s study of the essay as a major genre in contemporary culture.
• To initiate the student to research

• Introduction
• Understanding Essays : Through Professional Models
• Writing Mechanics
• Mid-Term Exam
• Improving Writing

Validation de Module 9

• To introduce students to linguistics as a science of language
• To provide adequate background in the various aspects of the discipline

• Introduction
• Traditional Schools of Linguistics
• Modern Schools of Linguistics
• Subfields of Linguistics
• Branches of Linguistics

Validation de Module 10

This course introduces the student to the study of the culture of information technology and satellite culture, and how this is creating a whole new public, community, and ways of communicating and new consciousness all  around the world.

• A Basis for Media Studies: Key Words
• Mass Media and Society
• Media Products 2 : Texts—Realism And Narrative
• Media Products 3: News Influence; Advertizing And Persuasion
• Mid-Term Exam
• Methods of Study
• From Counterculture to Cyberculture
• The Anthropology of Cyberculture
• The Political Economy of the Media
• Cyberspace Representations 1: Sex and Hip Hop
• Cyberspace Representations 2: Using Media Literacy in Cyberspace
• Final Exam

Validation de Module 11

• To deal with issues of representation of the self & the other taking into consideration the historical contexts of the texts under study.
• To understand the strategies informing the discourse on the other.

• What is Cultural Studies?
• Introduction to the Course: “Cultural Studies and its Theoretical
• The British Tradition and its Translations
•  “The Americanization of Cultural Studies” – Pfister (1991); “On the
• Structure, Agency, and the Sociology of Culture:  “A Theory of Structure: Duality, Agency, and Transformation” – Sewell (1992); “Structure, Agency, and the Sticky Problem of Culture” – Hays (1994); “Ideological Work in Empirical Studies of Culture,” from An Essay on Culture (pgs. 75-113)
•  Culture / Discourse / Power: Excerpts from Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgement of Taste – Bourdieu (1987); “Concerted Cultivation and the Accomplishment of Natural Growth” – Lareau (2003); “Two Lectures” – Foucault (1976); “Method” (from The)

Validation de Module 12

• To study strategies unique to each genre (legal and economic)
• To train students in translating legal and business texts.
• To familiarize students with translation in professional life;
• To prepare students for further courses in translation

• Introduction to Legal Systems
• Specificities of Legal Language
•  Philosophy Underling Each Legal System
•  Legal Discourse
•  In Class Practice
•  Economic System: An Overview
• Register-Based Translation
• Concept As Key Element In Business Translation
• In Class Practice

Validation de Module 13

• Students will be able to analyse fiction in terms of the various technicalities used in literature

• Study of TWO  or THREE full-length novels representative of the realistic tradition (16 weeks)
• Topics include Introduction to the novel as a genre and its developments ( 16 weeks)

Validation de Module 15 / semestre3

• Students will be able to use linguistic tools, concepts and theories to account for language teaching, language learning and speech therapy.

• Language Teaching theories
• Language learning theories
• Speech therapy
• Key Topics : 
• Language Learning
• Methods of teaching
• The Direct method
• The Natural method
• The Psychological method
• The Phonetic method
• The Reading method
• The Grammar translation method
• The Eclectic method
• The Dual language method

Validation de Module 16 / semestre3

Students will be acquainted with the various aspects and techniques of stylistics

1. Similarity and contrast
2. Coherence and cohesion
3. repetition and parallelism
4. Foregrounding
5. Deviation
6. Figurative language
7. Genres
8. Contexts
9. Forms and functions
10. Cultural implications.

Validation de Module 17/ semestre3

Students will be aware of the interaction between the different forms of communication: non-verbal, linguistic, visual and auditory.

Students will be aware of the issues at stake in communication and modern society.

Students will be aware of the effects of mass communication upon audiences.

Students will be aware of the persuasive techniques and the use of technology to influence tendencies.

Students will be made conscious of the mechanisms of communication and will better develop their communication skills.

Unit 1 : An introduction to communication

Unit 2: Types of communication

Unit 3: Highlights in the history of communication: from the cave to the internet

Unit 4: Models of communication

Unit 5: Functions of communication, the media and language

Unit 7: Mass and public communication: the effects of the media (forms and funxctions)

Validation de Module 18/ semestre3

This course initiates the student to literary translation from English to Arabic and from Arabic to English. The student should progress toward the ability to handle fairly complex texts and ideas in both languages and cultures.

 Translation of texts on different contemporary topics

Validation de Module 19/ semestre3

• To introduce students to African literature written in English.
• To have and develop a sound literary background.
• To introduce a comparative approach to literature.
• develop an understanding of the process of being critical and analytical in their studies
• develop reflective learning skills

• A selection of short stories written by African writers
• A selection of poems written by African poets
• A selection of novels written by African novelists
• A selection of plays written by African playwrights

Validation de Module 20 / semestre3

• To deepen the students’ understading of novel writing
• To equip the students with the tools to analyze fully the content of novels
• To apply the minute stylistic analyses to the language of novels of different kinds
• To prepare the students to attempt to write their own short novels

Selection of Three novels that must be motivating and appealing to the student in terms of  content and language

Validation de Module 21 / semestre4

• Students will be able to use the various techniques of literary criticism.
• Students will be introduced to the various theories of literary criticism

• Russian formalism
• Modern Linguistics and the language of literature
• Anglo-American new criticism
• Structuralism and post-structuralism
• Modern psycho-analytic criticism
• Marxist theories of literature
• Feminist literary theory
• Post-colonial studies

Validation de Module 22 / semestre4

Introduction to poetic discourse

Study of a selection of poems

Validation de Module 23 / semestre4

Introduction to drama discourse

Brief survey of the English and American drama of the 20^th century.

Close study of  a selection of plays

Validation de Module 24 / semestre4

Students will be able to use the concepts and methods of general linguistics, in particular phonetics, phonology and morphology.

I.  Phonetics and Phonology

1. Overview of phonetics

2. Phonology: aims and principles

3. Segmental Phonology

4. Phonological rules

5. Assimilation and dissimilation

6. The standard theory of generative phonology

7. Recent trends in phonological theory: metrical and auto- segmental phonology

II.  Morphology

1.Morpheme identification

2.Types of morphemes

 3. Distribution of morphemes

 4. Meaning of morphemes

Validation de Module 21

Students will be able to use the concepts and methods of general linguistics, in particular syntactic analysis.

1. Foundational issues

2. Constituent structure

3. Grammatical functions and case

4. NP- movement

5. Wh- movement

Validation de Module 22

Understanding  semantics and pragmatics

A. Semantics

• Word Meaning
• Meaning as use
• Meaning as conditions on truth
• Meaning as concept
• Language and Thought,
• Reality,
• Reference,
• Cognition,
• Mental representation
• The naturalist hypothesis
• Sense and denotation 
• Word relationships (polysemy, etc…)
• Sentence meaning

B. Pragmatics

• Language and Communication
• The Speech Act
• The Speech Event
• Interactional dynamics in language interaction
• The Situation, etc

Validation de Module 23

Students will be able to use the concepts and methods of general linguistics, in particular syntactic analysis.

1. Foundational issues

2. Constituent structure

3. Grammatical functions and case

4. NP- movement

5. Wh- movement

Validation de Module 22

To train the student in advanced research methodology

• Literary Studies
• Linguistics-TEFL
• Media & Cultural Studies,
• Translation -  Mémoire de recherche