Reading Enrichment

The English Department is launching a Reading Enrichment program to bolster the community's English reading proficiency and to align with the university's goal of being a dependable academic resource. The program is designed to enhance the ability to efficiently read and comprehend a variety of English texts, develop analytical reading skills, and master key competencies such as main idea identification and vocabulary inference from context. The curriculum includes training on discerning central themes, inferring word meanings, understanding pronoun references, grasping authors' intentions, and applying reading strategies across diverse formats like magazines, documentaries, newspapers, and fiction.

Writing Enrichment

The English Department has identified a strong need for effective English writing skills for various communication purposes, such as crafting paragraphs, essays, reports, business letters, and articles. To address this, we offer a Writing Enrichment program that will cover the fundamentals of writing, including various types of paragraphs, elements of good writing, and the development of paragraph structure tailored to the students' interests and objectives. This program aims to enhance the community's academic reliance on the university by improving participants' basic English writing skills for application in diverse contexts. The training is designed for intermediate-level learners, including students, professionals, and anyone interested in advancing their English writing proficiency.

English Business Writing 

The English Department recognizes the critical importance of English as a global language, especially in the business context, and is therefore offering a business English writing training program. This initiative aims to enhance communication skills and efficiency in the workplace by teaching appropriate formats, styles, and structures for various business documents, expanding relevant vocabulary, and providing practical writing exercises. The program supports the university's commitment to community service and academic excellence.

Discussion and Debate: Learning English Through Current Events

The "Discussion and Debate: Learning English Through Current Events" training program aims at enhancing the community's English proficiency and supporting the university's mission as an academic resource. This program is suitable for adult learners at the upper-intermediate to advanced levels of English proficiency, as well as those interested in furthering their skills. The objectives are to develop and boost confidence in listening and speaking English, to enhance understanding and vocabulary through various texts and media, to cultivate critical thinking skills within conversational and debate contexts, and to improve rhetorical skills such as persuasive speaking, public speaking, and daily conversational debate. The training will cover topics such as news, editorials, and various texts from newspapers like The Nation and international sources like The New York Times' "Room for Debate," as well as English news video clips, documentaries, lectures, motivational speaking, and debates, along with English radio programs and podcasts like those from the BBC.