| Course Contents | 
	
	
		| Relationship between lexical items and structural forms, word formation including prefixes and suffixes, idioms, collocations, slang, euphemisms, neologism, proverbs and phrasal verbs in spoken and written language. | 
	
	
		| Weekly Course Content | 
	
	
		| Week | 
		Subject | 
		Learning Activities and Teaching Methods | 
	
	
		
		| 1 | 
		Introduction to English lexicon | 
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		| 2 | 
		A brief history of the English language | 
		Lecturing, discussions and group work | 
	
		
		| 3 | 
		The rationale behind forming dictionaries and their place in language pedagogy | 
		Lecturing, discussions and group work | 
	
		
		| 4 | 
		The mental dictionary in the context of native and foreign language | 
		Lecturing, discussions and group work | 
	
		
		| 5 | 
		Change of meaning and the relationship between real and metaphorical meaning | 
		Lecturing, discussions and group work | 
	
		
		| 6 | 
		Meaningful relations among the words in the English language | 
		Lecturing, discussions and group work | 
	
		
		| 7 | 
		General revision and discussions | 
		Lecturing, discussions and group work | 
	
		
		| 8 | 
		mid-term exam | 
		 | 
	
		
		| 9 | 
		Examination of prefixes and suffixes in the English language | 
		Lecturing, discussions and group work | 
	
		
		| 10 | 
		Advanced level academic nouns and collocations | 
		Lecturing, discussions and group work | 
	
		
		| 11 | 
		Advanced level academic adverbs and collocations | 
		Lecturing, discussions and group work | 
	
		
		| 12 | 
		Advanced level prepositions and prepositional phrases | 
		Lecturing, discussions and group work | 
	
		
		| 13 | 
		Advanced level phrasal verbs | 
		Lecturing, discussions and group work | 
	
		
		| 14 | 
		Advanced level sentence connectors | 
		Lecturing, discussions and group work | 
	
		
		| 15 | 
		Question & answer and discussions | 
		Lecturing, discussions and group work | 
	
	
	
		| 16 | 
		final exam | 
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		| Recommend Course Book / Supplementary Book/Reading | 
	
		
		| 1 | 
		English Vocabulary Today by Barry Blake | 
	
		
		| 2 | 
		Longman Dictionary of language teaching and applied linguistics by Jack Richards | 
	
		
		| Required Course instruments and materials | 
	
	
		| Textbooks, Dictionaries, Web-based Dictionaries |