Compulsory

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).

Module syntax equips students with theories in syntax in English language. The background knowledge includes: structure and cluster composition nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, prepositions - common phrases in English – from simple to complex level and draw tree diagrams representing component sand phrase structures and sentences. Syntax module also provides basic knowledge of English syntax such as different kinds of sentences in English, classification of sentences, described by the criteria according to different criteria and different grammar systems. In addition, the module also provides students with methods and sentence analysis and description of English grammar system. From this background knowledge, the learner develops his or her ability to identify, compare and interpret structures in English to Vietnamese, then develops his or her skills in translating English – Vietnamese more effectively.