Campus Numérique UABT

     The lectures incorporate a four-aspect study of language layers, split into two main parts. The first is a neat survey the main branches dealing with sounds of the language: phonetics and phonology. The first part; namely the phonological level, has gained the lion’s share due to the importance of bringing Master II EFL students to appreciate all the sound manifestations in comparing and contrasting languages. It helps to clarify the shared phonetic properties that languages have in common and at the same time gives different aspects of sound combinations whereby languages may differ. This strong focus on the phonological aspect over the other levels is meant to compensate the slimming down of the phonetic and phonology programmes to only two years (first and second undergraduate studies) with a very short time allotment of only one hour per week. Subsequently, EFL students will never come across the basic phonological aspects of the target language they are supposed to master. 

Arguably, such courses of language and about language give a holistic view of both the internal structure of language (its form) and the varied uses of language in human everyday uses (its function). For this and that, language learners should be encouraged to apply some of the analytic procedures presented in these lectures or others to consider some of the similarities and/or discrepancies that may exist in the study of a native language, a second language or a completely foreign one and mainly putting focus on different language-related issues. As the outline will show, there is evidence of considering the different levels: phonology, syntax, morphology and semantics. These are the levels of linguistics whereby the present lectures are set to to bring continuation of the former programme(s) in which EFL learners were administered a whole chemistry of variables and concepts via different schools of linguistics. 

Technical English course is devoted to enhancing the students' English speaking, writing, and reading skills.  In addition to give them some information about some topics and the terminology of their domain.