English for Computer Sciences
Program Objectives
Written By
Magda Al Sebai
- Providing a thematically developed program, designed to enable students to learn to use the language, not just learn about the language.
- Approaching the English language as skills to be learned and experienced daily, and not as a set of rules to be memorized.
- Teaching the four language skills of listening, speaking, reading and writing as integrated and not as individual components.
- Teaching English at different levels.
- Using English language supporting teaching materials which are relevant, integrated and necessary supplementary materials of textbooks.
- Providing relevant learning activities that actively engage students in speaking, reading, listening and writing, and accessing and using information technology in English.
- Providing a strong and varied program of instruction based on high quality materials and sound instructional strategies and methodologies.
- Using audio, video and computer materials as supporting teaching aids.
- Designing classroom activities and home assignments in such a way as to help students not to focus merely on getting high marks but also on assimilating the contents of the materials.
- Using computer information as an integrated part of the curriculum.
- Enhancing experiential learning.
- Using English language exams in coherence with the international standard of world language exams.
- Emphasizing critical and analytical study of the teaching materials.
- Preparing students for any bilingual and multi-cultural situations.
- Including lists of different relevant textbooks and supporting teaching materials.
- Including lists of online library materials to support the English program.
- Adopting an integrated curriculum which is designed to allow learners to broadly explore knowledge in various subjects related to their environments (Humphrey, Post, & Ellis, 1981); integrated curriculum “views learning and teaching in a holistic way and reflects the real world, which is interactive.” (Shoemaker, 1989, p. 5).
- Implementing the curriculum using research- based instructions.
References Humphreys, A., Post, T., & Ellis, A. (1981). Interdisciplinary methods: A thematic
approach. Santa Monica, CA: Goodyear Publishing Company.
Shoemaker, B. (1989).Integrative education: A Curriculum for the twenty-first century.
Oregon School Study Council 33(2), 5. Retrieved from the Proquest database.
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