IC/Passport Number - School of Humanities, USM

HXE 201/4
REPORT WRITING AND EDITING IN ENGLISH
The course focuses on the various aspects of report writing and the skills of
editing.
In the report writing component, students learn about various types of reports,
techniques for collecting data in preparation for writing a report and how to
write reports effectively.
The editing component covers a wide range of techniques required to edit texts
adapted from books, journals, newspapers, students' reports etc. It also provides
interesting practice in various aspects of editing.
HXE 205/4
LANGUAGE LEARNING THEORIES
The course will introduce students to various theories on language acquisition
expecially the behaviourists’ views of Skinner and Pavlov; the view of cognitive
psychologists such as Piaget and Vygotsky; Chomsky’s nativist view etc.
The second part of the course will deal with the second language learning
theories such as Contrastive Analysis, Error Analysis, Krashen’s Monitor
Theory and Selinker’s Interlanguage Theory. The direct and indirect
implications of these theories will also be examined.
HXE 208/3
19TH AND 20TH CENTURY POETRY
This course will trace the rise of Romanticism as a counterpoint to Classicism
and the Enlightenment through the study of the works of some representative
Romantic poets to highlight the Romantic reaction and resistance to the
depersonalized, objective and rationalistic tendencies and world view prescribed
by the Enlightenment and the formalized, structured and prescriptive aesthetics
of Classicism. The second part of the course will then go on to examine the
advent of the modern ‘era’, the watershed that marks the transition from the
relative stability and harmony of Romanticism and Victorianism to a world
marked increasingly by a sense of disorder and fragmentation. This change will
be studied in relation to First World War Poetry and the works of selected
Modernist/Post Modernist poets.
HXE 209/4
LINGUISTICS 1 (PHONOLOGY AND MORPHOLOGY
OF ENGLISH)
This course is divided into two parts:
The first part of the course deals with phonetics and phonology. It concerns the
mechanism of speech production i.e. how the sounds are produced, classified
and transcribed as well as phonological description and analysis of speech
sounds both at segmental and supra-segmental levels.
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