The English Department cultivates learners’ motivation to master a foreign international language, keeping with the goal of lifelong learning. To this end, we equip learners with key linguistic, communication and thinking skills that empower them to communicate efficiently in different real-life situations, and interact with diverse mediums, all in compliance with our Islamic principles.  Our department works to help learners attain a deep level of critical thinking and boost their creative thinking about literature and the world so as to fully arm them for future career and future life. 

Read aloud fluently and with proper pace, pitch and intonation

Display knowledge and understanding of the principal genres of literature in English

Expand lexical awareness through acquisition of academic vocabulary and morphological forms

Comprehend, interact with and evaluate any spoken discourse in native language in daily life and career life

Recognize most common kinds of English syntax and structure

Communicate orally effectively in different contexts with a variety of audiences and for different purposes, using authentic, appropriate, and correct linguistic forms

Express, defend and argue own point of view, especially with respect to current world issues, making strategic use of digital media and visual displays to express information and enhance understanding of presentations

Read critically and proficiently, and analyze a variety of texts, of advanced academic levels, evaluating different kinds of concepts, thoughts and attitudes

Interpret technical and connotative use of context

Conduct short as well as more sustained research projects with committed observance of academic ethics

Use technology, including the Internet, to produce and publish writing and to interact and collaborate with others

Recognize, explain, and apply various rhetorical modes in writing (persuasion, explanation, narration, analysis, contrast, process, classification and definition, illustration, …); using the conventions of standard English

Master university admission test skills

Highly value reading and knowledge, through constantly reading in different genres and types

Display curiosity and the desire to run own research for the information desired

Demonstrate respect and critical openness to other cultures

Display ability to employ knowledge of language to advocate and spread Islamic faith