The Basic Reading and Vocabulary course is designed to help freshmen ELT students develop essential reading skills and expand their vocabulary in English. Emphasizing the importance of understanding and using collocations, the course aims to equip students with strategies for improving reading comprehension and retaining new vocabulary in context. Through various texts and engaging activities, students will practice identifying key ideas, deducing meaning from context, and enhancing their ability to use appropriate word combinations, preparing them for more advanced language studies.

This course is designed to give you an understanding of English phonetics and phonology. In phonetics, you'll learn about the characteristics of segmental phonemes (such as consonants and vowels) as well as suprasegmental phonemes (like accent, stress, and syllables). It also covers both broad and narrow phonetic transcriptions. In phonology, you'll explore the principles that govern sound patterns in English, including concepts like phonemes, phones, allophones, minimal pairs, phonotactics, and syllables. The focus is on how phonological rules transform underlying (phonemic) representations into surface (phonetic) forms. With this foundational knowledge, you'll be able to conduct basic research and analyze simple phonological patterns in English.

Educational Statistics is an introductory graduate course in using quantitative methods for inquiry in the social and behavioral sciences. Students will be exposed to the fundamental concepts and procedures of descriptive and inferential statistics. Students will develop competence in reading and understanding statistics topics from sources such as texts, dissertations, journals, or technical reports. The course includes an introduction to the use and interpretation of SPSS, and a statistics lab component will be required.