EW BENG 3209: EXPOSITORY WRITING

Prerequisite: D+ in BENG 2206

This course is designed to help students gain skills in developing exposition.  They will learn the techniques of writing formal essays, book reviews, critical analyses, and other forms of writing.  The course is also designed to help the student acquire the techniques of answering essay examination questions.

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ISLTLL BPLE 1101: INTRODUCTION TO THE STUDY OF LANGUAGE THEORIES AND LANGUAGE LEARNING

The course surveys definitions of Language; functions of Language in Society; theories of Language Origin; Spoken and Written Languages; Classification of Languages; Language and the Individual. The course also covers theories of language learning; L1 acquisition; L2 learning/acquisition: the language environment; internal monitor model and related hypothesis; the bilingual; individual learner differences: effects of age; the critical period hypothesis, the ‘good’ language learner; input and interaction:  ‘Motherese’ and L1 Acquisition, sources of L2 input, formal and natural setting; implications for language teaching in Primary Teachers’ Colleges and Primary Schools.

ILSL BPLE 1202: INTRODUCTION TO LINGUISTICS, STYLISTICS AND LITERATURE

The course covers the following topics: Definition of Linguistics; Origin and Value of Language; History of Linguistics and Its Sub-divisions; Phonology of English; English Morphology; Pedagogical Implications.

It is also surveys the scope and study of style; concept of and approaches to Style; stylistic and non-stylistic selections; stylistics analysis; levels of stylistics analysis; procedure and organization of analysis and patterns of Literary Language.

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TSAL BPLE 2103: THE STRUCTURE OF SELECTED AFRICAN LANGUAGES

The course is an In-depth study of the following; - One African Language: its Phonology, standard orthography, morphology, syntax and semantics; a comparative analysis with other African Language. Possible Languages for study are as follows: Luganda, Runyoro/ Rutooro, Runyankole/Rukiga, Luo, Ateso/Ng’akarimojong, and Kiswahili. 

PE BPLE 2104: PROFESSIONAL ENGLISH

The course covers Oral Communication: presentations, interviews, using a telephone, formal meetings; Written Communication: report writing, formal/business letter writing, curriculum vitae, memorandum, telegram/telex; writ ing minutes of a formal meeting; Academic Writing: essays, notes-making, writing references/bibliographies, and Questionnaires.

AG BPLE 2205: ADVANCED GRAMMAR

This course surveys sentence analysis using traditional grammar diagrams; syntax error analysis; vocabulary development; spelling; punctuation; and general grammatical propriety in both oral and written discourse.

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LGW BPLE 2206: LITERATURE IN GENERAL (WRITTEN)

This course covers literary features/aspects; literary genres: prose (fictional and nonfictional), poetry, and drama; in-depth study of selected texts; applic ation of literary texts in language teaching.

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ALS BPLE 2207: ADVANCED LANGUAGE SKILLS

This course deals with practice in the four basic language skills:  delivering speeches; person to person communication; group discussions, taking dicta tions; reading and comprehension; effective and ineffective reading habits; writing essays and summaries.

PLCA BPLE 3108: LITERARY CREATIVE ARTS

The course involves creating written fictional and non-fictional piECDs based on real life experiences in form of short stories, plays, poems, essays, and articles for newspapers, newsletters, magazines or journals.  The course is intended to help the learner create work that is informative as well as entertaining.  Further, the course will deal with why people write, the different types of writers, writing with style, editing and proofreading.

LCDD BPLE 3109: LANGUAGE CURRICULUM DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT

The course surveys the general principles of materials writing; some basic principles of communicative materials design; concept of ‘task’ in task-based language teaching; use of texts as ‘input’ in language teaching materials; matching task types with syllabus objectives; designing learning tasks for the four language skills; integration in materials writing: designing a unit and evaluating samples of language teaching materials.

LSLP BPLE 3110:  LANGUAGE IN SOCIETY AND LANGUAGE PLANNING

The course is about language variations within a society:  bilingualism and multilingualism, status of language; variations within one language within a specific socio-cultural perspective; communication for language teaching; implications for language teaching: the problem of English in the developing countries (a threat to socio-cultural identity), the need to teach communica tive competence above linguistic competence, strategies for teaching comm utative competence; the language situation in a multilingual society; stages and activities in language planning; factors affecting language planning; bilin gual education: minority languages in school; the language policy in Uganda and other east African countries.

ALL BPLE 3111: ADULT LANGUAGE LEARNING

The introduces the student to the understanding of the adult, his cognitive level and background knowledge; differences between child and adult lan guage learning/ acquisition; the formal and non-formal modes of adult lan guage learning; materials and methods; the teacher’s role as a facilitator; resources and support systems.

AOL BPLE 3112 AFRICAN ORAL LITERATURE
The course surveys the scope of African oral literature; justification of Afri can oral literature in the curriculum; African oral literary forms; collection and interpretation of African oral literature in English and African oral literature in students’ (course participants) languages.