| Subjects Required | Credits | Courses Duration |
Course Description | Course Outcomes | Evaluation/ Assessment | References |
| Listening 4 | 3 | 45 periods | This course helps students get familiarized with a wide range of vocabulary such as psychology, science, cuisine, health, business and other social issue in many simple forms of conversations, news reports, and lectures. | Students will gain listening, speaking, reading, and writing skills at the level of C1 - based on the Common European Framework of Reference (CEFR); Students will have the ability to communicate with the emphasis on how well it is done, in terms of appropriate, sensitivity, and the capacity to deal with unfamiliar topics. | Ongoing & final exam | (Earle-Carlin, S., [2011], Q: Skills for Success 5 – Listening and Speaking, Oxford University Press, Oxford.) |
| Speaking 4 | 3 | 45 periods | This course helps students practice speaking skills based on such situations and social topics such as new mass media, languages, work and entertainments, international collaboration, idea & innovation, imagination, changes, energy alternatives, and job interviews. | Ongoing & final exam | (Earle-Carlin, S., [2011], Q: Skills for Success 5 – Listening and Speaking, Oxford University Press, Oxford.) | |
| Reading 4 | 3 | 45 periods | This course provides students with a variety of reading subskills such as skimming, scanning, guessing the meaning of unknown words based on context clues and/or morphological analysis, identifying genre of the given text, identifying the writer’s viewpoints or attitudes; This course also equips students with academic vocabulary and background knowledge about subjects like occupation, computers, tourism, mind, food, language, culture, literature and wildlife. | Ongoing & final exam | (Anderson, N. J., [2014], Active Skills for Reading 4, Third Edition, National Geographic Learning, Boston.) | |
| Writing 4 | 3 | 45 periods | This subject includes 12 chapters: reviewing structures, components of an essay, selecting the topic, searching information, outlining, avoiding plagiarism, citing, presenting a research article In chapter 1-3, learners are required to accomplish an outline of topic-based essay; in chapter 4-12 with the ability to find out more related information to expand it into a research essay of 1000 words including abstract, in-text citation and references. | Ongoing & final exam | (Zemach, D. E., Broudy, D., Valvona, C., [2011], Writing Research Papers: From Essay to Research Papers, MacMillan Publishers Limited, Oxford.) |
