English

This course is to provide English-majored freshmen at HCMUTE with the overview of TESOL programme, expected learning goals and outcomes as well as career orientation.

This course is intended for year-4 students of English major at UTE-HCMC. It is designed to assist students in developing public speaking skills.  Students are trained in selecting and organizing ideas; adapting a message to a particular audience; supporting ideas clearly, vividly, and logically; and delivering an effective message with self confidence and enthusiasm.

During the course, attention will be focused upon providing an atmosphere of positive reinforcement and constructive feedback. Students are encouraged to help each other with suggestions for improvement. The basic philosophy of this course is that public speaking involves skills which can be mastered by anyone with motivation and determination.

This course provides students with knowledge about method and technique to compare English and Vietnamese as well as knowledge of the trans-cultural perspectives between the East and West. Structural analysis is also another focus of this course and this emphasis helps students to recognize the mistakes in English language learning. This course in general strengthens students with necessary skills to conduct comparisons among different languages, to describe language from a critical perspective, to synthesize aspects of linguistic varieties, and to evaluate the English learning materials for language learners.

This course is designed to provide the students of English major at UTE with the large-scale view of the main features of the area of language study concerned: its scope and principles of enquiry, its basic concerns and key concepts involved in studying and analyzing pragmatic meaning. The course helps the students explore the relationship between semantics and pragmatics, the two branches of linguistics that look at the meaning. The course also covers the area of language function that embraces the use of language in social contexts (knowing what to say, how to say it, and when to say it - and how to "be" with other people).