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Course Description
This course aims at helping students combine the knowledge of the English language with their technical knowledge with special emphasis on vocabulary acquisition and grammatical accuracy. It offers up-to-date technical content, authentic reading and listening passages covering a wide range of topics like the use of virtual reality in industry, personal computing, viruses and security, information systems, and multimedia. Letter-writing section offers a complete guide to writing work-related letters and comprehensive glossary of technical terms forms a useful mini-dictionary of computing terminology.
Course Objectives
The main objectives of the course are to:
- impart effective language skills to students and enable them to use language accurately, clearly and concisely,
- acquaint students with language used in computer study through extensive reading activity,
- help them to enhance their ability to use language in a proper way with specific focus on grammatical accuracy and writing competence,
- enable students to improve work-related letter writing skills with special attention to presentation and structure, and
- familiarize them with innovation in computer science while introducing them with the language used in this field.
Course Contents
I. Personal Computing
The Processor
Language Focus A: Contextual Reference
II. Portable Computers
Operating Systems
Language Focus B: Word formation, prefixes
III. Online Services
Data Transmission
Language Focus C: Word formation, suffixes
I. Computer Software
Comparing Software Packages
Language Focus D: Making Comparisons
II. Computer Networks
Network Configurations
Language Focus E: Time Sequence
III. Computer in Education
CALL
Language Focus F: Giving Examples
IV. Virtual Reality
VR Input Devices
Language Focus G: Classifying
I. Programming and Languages
C Languages
Language Focus H: Organizing Information
II. Computer Viruses
Computer Security
Language Focus I: Listing
III. Computers in the Office
Computer System
Language Focus J: The Passive
I. Computers in Medicine
Data Storage and Management
Language Focus K: Explanations and Definitions
II. Robotics
Robot Characteristics
Language Focus L: Compound Noun
I. Machine Translation
AI and Expert System
Language Focus M: Cause and Effect
II. Multi Media
Computer-to-video-conversion
Language Focus N: Making Predictions
III. Computer Graphics
24 bit Color
Language Focus O: Letter Writing
Teaching Methods
The course expects communicative language teaching (CLT). Facilitating the learning process, the instructors are expected to stimulate the students to work as per the spirit of the course and make learning a joyful experience.
Evaluation
Internal Evaluation: 40%
- Attendance - 5
- Presentation/classroom participation - 5
- Writing sample - 15
- Mid-term test - 15
Final Evaluation: 60%
- Comprehension
- Vocabulary formation
- Grammar testing
- Writing of multiple forms
Prescribed Textbook
1. Boeckner, Keith and P. Charles Brown. Oxford English for Computing. London: Rutledge, 1993.