MABINI COLLEGES Daet, Camarines Norte Course Syllabus 1 Semester, AY 2013-2014

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Course Title: English Plus Course Code: English + Credit Units: 3 units with 54 hours Mabini Colleges: Vision: MABINI COLLEGES shall cultivate a CULTURE OF EXCELLENCE in Education. Mission: MABINI COLLEGES aims to provide quality instruction, research and extension service programs at all educational levels as its monumental contribution to national and global growth and development. Specifically, it aims to transform students into: God-fearing Nation-loving Law-abiding Productive, and Locally/Globally competitive persons. VISION-MISSION STATEMENT: The MABINI COLLEGES, as a citadel of learning in the Bicol Region aims to contribute to the national and global culture of excellence. V. College of Liberal Arts (CLA) Vision: The College of Liberal Arts would have become potent supplier of competent and fully trained AB graduates whose expertise in their respective fields are needed by local, national, and business industries. Mission: We are tasked to develop human resources possessing highest degree of competence in the field of HUMANITIES, SOCIAL SCIENCE and COMMUNICATION EDUCATION.

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We will continue to keep in step with the demands of local and global environment by offering straight liberal arts programs in language, literature, journalism, broadcasting, communication, economics, history, sociology, social sciences and other allied courses. Research and community service will always be a strong component of our functions to ensure that our graduates are able to contribute substantially to peace, prosperity and progress of the province, the Bicol Region and the country, in general. Educational Objectives: 1. To provide opportunities for the integral development of individuals to make them more capable of effecting positive changes within themselves, their families and their larger environment; 2. To provide opportunities to experiential learning and experimentation; 3. To develop critical, creative and systematic thinking; 4. To make students aware of economic, social, environmental and energy crises besetting the country and have them participate actively in the formation of solution to these problems; 5. To have them acquire knowledge, skills, values and attitudes that will make them more effective in future professional functions; and, 6. To promote national consciousness and responsible citizenship. VI. Course Description: This course is designed to improve the English Language Proficiency of College Freshmen by learning the critical grammatical structures necessary for communicative functions such as narrating, describing, giving directions, etc. and to acquire vocabulary needed for academic study. VII. Placements: This is a course content offered to first year students during the first semester of every academic year based from CMO# 014s 2007. VIII. 1. 2. 3. 4. Course Objectives: Give students communicative grammar; Develop their skills to communicate or transmit message, information, knowledge and opinion; Express themselves through highly cognitive decision-making and problem-solving process; Demonstrate overall comprehension, analytical insight, and intuitive feel for the language through the manipulations and reprocessing of ideas and information such as reconstruction, deconstruction, transformation and re-assembly tasks; 5. Produce a more relaxed and enjoyable classroom environment to create positive learning with students than traditional, isolated activities for more attentive response on assigned tasks.

IX. Course Outline: A. PRELIMS 1. Grammar Review (Refresher) 2. Vocabulary Building Figures of Speech Word Structures 3. Lexicons Context Clues, Diction, Idioms, Prepositions B. MIDTERM 4. Common Concerns in English Synonyms, Antonyms, and Homonyms Mispronounced, misspelled and misunderstood Words and Expressions by the Filipino and other Curious Trivia 5. Grammar and Syntax The Parts of Speech (Nouns, Pronouns, Verbs, Adjectives, Adverb, etc) Subject-Verb Agreement, Verb Tenses, Articles Numbers C. PRE-FINALS 6. Sentences, Phrases, and Clauses 7. Punctuation, Capitalization, Abbreviations and Contraction D. FINALS 8. Vocabulary, Abbreviations, and Spelling 9. Paragraphs and Writing 10. English in Modern Times (New Words, Trademarks and Brand Names, American and British English)

E. Course Requirements Assignments Quizzes/Exercises Projects Attendance & Class Participation F. Strategies Grammar Games Board Tasks Group Activities Sentence analysis Error analysis Writing tasks
PEARLY BETH OGAYON

Prepared by

Noted by

DR. INES D. ZABALA Dean, College of Liberal Arts

Approved by

DR. EMMA C. AVELLANA Vice President for Academic Affairs

Date of Effectiveness

June 17, 2013