Before 2018

The course is designed for the second-year English major students in the third semester  in order to introduce new language as the second language. This course aims at enhancing students’ Japanese communication ability at elementary level. In Addition, the course also provides the students with familiar topics related to self-introduction, greetings, family, etc.

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 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).

The Morphology and Lexicology course provides students with basic concepts of words - the internal structure of words, how they are formed, their relationship to other words, and how they make up English vocabulary. The study of morphology and lexicology helps students comprehend the systematic ways in which the English words operate. By the end of this course, students will be able to guess the grammatical functions and meaning of words, support students in learning a language and utilize words effectively in communication.