Contrastive Analysis between English and Arabic (LN400/LN400o)

The teaching of Contrastive Analysis is conceived within the scope of  comparing and contrasting Arabic and English in relation to improving Second Language Acquisition and translation through predicting learning difficulties and translation errors that may occur as a result of L1 interference and negative transfer. In this respect, the course participates in providing quality education. Participants are also equipped with approaches and tools of spoken, written and visual text analysis in English and Arabic to assess the impact of the different social contexts on text production and reception. Texts reflect issues of gender, social power as well as health & pandemics.