English at KFUPM

The English Language Department teaches more than 5000 of KFUPM’s undergraduate students per year. We help students, already quite proficient in English, sharpen their English academic writing skills.

ELD faculty come from the United Kingdom, the United States, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand. Our highly qualified instructors have years of experience, and have worked around the world. They are teachers, researchers, and authors. Most importantly, they are professional, friendly, and the best in the Kingdom.

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Courses

INTRODUCTION TO ACADEMIC DISCOURSE

This course is an introduction to academic reading, writing, and vocabulary. Students are exposed to reading texts of various genres, such as encyclopedias, magazines, newspapers, and websites, and are taught strategies for dealing with them. The writing component teaches argumentation and such rhetorical modes as exemplification, causal analysis, and comparison. Students are taught the writing process and introduced to paragraphing, cohesion, conciseness, unity and the use of specific detail, and are alerted to common errors in grammar and sentence structure. The vocabulary component is based on the Academic Word List, a corpus of approximately 600 words based on the most frequently occurring lexis in a broad range of academic texts. During the course, students are expected to maintain a Reading and Writing Portfolio as guided self-study.

Prerequisite: Completion of Preparatory English Program

Texts: An Introduction to Academic Discourse (online Blackboard course)


​ENGL 101 COURSE COMPONENTS  -  T202
​Writing Portfolio 10%​WP​​Students select 10 pieces of writing done throughout the class as practice tests.
​ WRITING TESTS 45%
WT 1
WT 2
WT 3
Comparison (15%)
Causal Analysis (15%)
Strong argument (15%)
​MIDTERM EXAM 15%​MTE​A multiple-choice examination based on two TOEFL-like readings followed by questions relating to the vocabulary contained in the Academic Word Lists 1-3 and common grammatical errors associated with academic English.
FINAL EXAM 30%
​FEA multiple-choice examination based on TOEFL-like readings followed by questions relating to the vocabulary contained in the Academic Word Lists 4-6 and common grammatical errors associated with academic English.  (15%)

A five paragraph argument essay with counter-argument. (15%)​