Speciality Requirements Student must complete 24 credit hours

Course Code	Course Name	Credit Hours	Prerequests
471511	Research Design & Statistical Methods	3
The course aims at providing students with the concept of design, goals and principles. It offers kinds of designs such as analysis of variance, analysis of variance design, correlative studies, multiple regression analysis by using ?SPSS? and other statistical analysis.
471515	Seminar in Writing Master Thesis	3
In this course, students study multiple theses in education, from which students make presentations discussing point of weakness and strength. Students also learn objective criticism for such theses and are trained to write a good research plan.
473513	Methods of Teaching Eng. Language 1	3
This course examines special problems in teaching English for primary and secondary levels and the application practical issues in teaching English Language in the classroom. It also involves techniques, methods, activities, various strategies used in teaching English.
473514	Methods of Teaching Eng. Language II	3	473513
The course includes topics in teaching supervision, research supervision, study thelatest development in the current issues of this major. It provides the opportunity forstudents to be involved practically in teaching English.
473518	Analytical Study of Major Curriculum	3
The course aims at introducing students to the process of curriculum evaluation of English language including cognitive, emotional, psychological aspects and the student's needs. There will be special emphasis on learning outcome and on language principles, psychological and teaching principles. The course includes testing analysis of textbooks contents including teachers' books.
473583	Modern Trends in English Language	3	473514
The course discusses the development and current issues related to teaching English. It provides students with opportunities to study and analyse current research and master thesis related to teaching English, also it provides opportunity for students to evaluate English curriculum through current research.
473599	Thesis	6
In this course a graduate student must submit a thesis and pass an oral defence related to his/her thesis. (See Academic Rules and Regulations for Graduate Students).

Speciality Optional Requirements Student must complete 6 credit hours

Course Code	Course Name	Credit Hours	Prerequests
473520	Research Seminar in the English Language	3
The seminars aims at introducing students to current research in the area of skills in teaching English through comprehensive reading for projects and current research in this area. The students are introduced to the needs of English teacher to be in touch with up to date information used in teaching English, students are expected to present and discuss the latest research with his/her classmates. Subsequently, the students form like intellectual forum presenting new ideas, discussing problems with each other, they determine effective ways and challenges in identifying effective techniques.
473521	Designing English Language Tests	3
Topics covered in this course include teaching models used for teaching design. It involves analysis of educational environment, writing specific behavioural objectives, designing and achievements tests, identifying methods of teaching and educational aids. Additionally, topics include formative and summative evaluation and the use of theoretical and practical application in lesson curriculum used in governmental schools.
473522	Evaluation of Curricula in English Language	3
The course aims at helping students to identify the difference between testing, evaluation and measurement in English language teaching. It looks at the characteristic of evaluation, kinds, purposes, functions methods, roles,conditions and its methods of construction.
473557	Instructional Design in English Language	3
The course presents comprehensive study about tests, tests classification and testscorrection. The course involves major principles to be used in evaluation English Testsand how to build items, kinds of its items and theoretical background for tests evaluationsincluding listening, speaking reading and writing.

Speciality Optional Requirements, Second Set Student must complete 6 credit hours

Course Code	Course Name	Credit Hours	Prerequests
432570	Advanced Linguistics	3
This course is designed for graduate students in TEFL. It offers them an opportunity to be exposed to the most recent developments in linguistics theories in phonological, morphological, syntactic and semantics. The knowledge students acquire from this course is meant to enable them to view the different applications of linguistic theory to the fieldof foreign language teaching and learning. The theoretical model is given first, then their applications to contrastive analysis follows.
432571	Literature and Teaching Methodology	3
This course equips students with a new, advanced, outlook on the aesthetics and structure of the literary text and with approaches, methodologies, devices and tips of teaching a literary text, which is a component of school or faculty student curriculum. This could be a novel, a novella, a short story, a poem or a play. This is all done through the intensive reading and exploration of various, all-genre and across period texts. Application of Teaching Approach/ Methodology is simultaneous with reading and exploration. Student is expected to develop his/her own vision on the whys " "how's " and "what's " of teaching English literature to school pupils or faculty students. Fulfilling this vision is to be demonstrated in the Course requirements."
432572	Phonetics	3
This course has two main purposes. Firstly, it aims at providing students with phoneticKnowledge beyond the traditional undergraduate phonetics course are exposed studentsto the most recent development in feature theory, in particular. Furthermore, the courseintroduces students to supra-segmental features of the English language, an area which ishardly tackled in undergraduate phonetics. The importance of this subject stems from thefact that supra-segmental features constitute an area which creates linguistic interferencebetween English and Arabic.As for the phonology part of the course, the purpose here is to show the relationshipbetween a phonetic representation and a phonological one. It follows, and then thestudents are taught rules which carry them from one linguistic level to another. Differentphonological theories are presented with the most recent developments in each.
432573	Applied Linguistics	3
This graduate course aims at providing theoretical bases for certain pedagogical procedures, philosophies and techniques. In other words, the findings of theoretical linguistics are applied in matters like foreign language teaching, speech therapy and soon. Language as means of communication is viewed with respect to the social setting in which that language is used so sociolinguistics and language variation are major topics here. Moreover, pragmatic constitutes another major area in this course.
432580	Special Topics in Eng. Language	3
The content of this course is usually decided by the individual teacher with reference to student's taking the course. Teachers usually assign topics in English language and they try to exhaust all areas of research related to that topic. As this course takes the format of seminar students participation is essential in class presentation.