Our Lady of the Pillar College-San Manuel, Inc.

San Manuel, Isabela

A.Y. 2020-2021

Course Syllabus in English for Specific Purposes for Criminology

I. COURSE DESCRIPTION:
This course is prepared for the criminology students learning English to acquire and develop English language, knowledge and skills for future work.

II. COURSE OBJECTIVE:

The course is defined according to their needs and it aims to prepare students to use English for their professional studies and subsequently for their professional needs in real life
and career. This course will further give students the opportunity to speak on general and specific topics, communicate and express ideas, understand texts and information and
write properly.

III. SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES: The main objectives of the syllabus are:

1. Enhance listening skills to enable them to understand and apply specific information from the input.
2. To develop the students’ speaking skills to enable them to use general, social and professional language.
3. Apply reading skills to enable them to skim an adapted text for main idea, to scan an adapted text for specific information, to interpret an adapted text for inferences;

4. To develop the students’ writing skills to enable them to respond to input applying information to a specified task, to elicit, to select, and to summarize information.
5. Improve general capacity to a level that enables them to use English in their professional and academic environment.

IV. Course Content

Objectives Topic/Content Activities Assessment Time Allotment
Enhance listening to enable them Listening techniques  Listen to sample audio  Note Taking 1 hour
to understand and apply specific and written reports.
information from the input Listening for Information  Note Taking  Question and Answer 1 hour
 Responsive listening  Note Taking
Listening to Discussion  Question and Answer 1 hour
 Written and Oral
Examination
Giving Descriptions  Answering  Written reports 2 hour
Telephone Communication  Lecture/Discussion  Feedback 2 hour
 Answering clients on
telephone
To develop the students’ speaking Presentation and Oral Reports  Lecture/Discussion  Written and 2 hours
skills to enable them to use  Explanation Oral Examination
general, social and professional  Individual Reporting
language.
Interview  Lecture/Discussion  Conducting interviews 1 hour

Communicate Effectively  Interactive discussion  Speech delivery 1 hour
Public Discourses  Interactive discussion  Practical 1 hour
Demonstration
Apply reading skills to enable Identifying Main Ideas and  Lecture/Discussion  1 hour
them to skim an adapted text for Finding Supporting details
main idea, to scan an adapted text  Reading of an Article
for specific information, to
interpret an adapted text for -Summarizing a Text  -Reading of an Article  -Writing a summary 1 hour
inferences;
-Deducing Meaning of  -Answering  1 hour
Difficult Words Comprehension Questions
 -Vocabulary Building

Obtaining Gist from  -Reading of an Article  1 hour

information read  -Writing Tasks
 To develop students’ writing skills  Lesson 1- Identifying  Reading an Article  Writing the Main Idea and 1 hour
to enable them to respond to input Main Ideas and Finding (Republic Act no. 4136, Supporting Details of the
applying information to a Supporting Details LTO Code) R.A No. 4136, LTO Code
specified task, to elicit, to select  Answering
and to summarize information Comprehension Questions
 Vocabulary Building
 Distinguishing facts and
 Discussion opinions from a given text
 Lesson 2- Distinguish  Identifying facts and 1 hour
Facts from Opinions opinions
 Writing a Summary

 Reading a text
 Lesson 3- Summarizing a 1 hour
 Discussion
Read Text  Watching a video clip

Improve general capacity to a
level that enables them to use
English in their professional and
academic environment.
understand complex sentences - Answering a puzzle -Reading of an Article 2 hours
-analyze and evaluate a crime (Transnational Crime)
- predict an outcome and -Answering Comprehension 1 hour
respond critically Questions
-make a spot report 2 hours

Course References:

Larsen-Freeman, D. (2000). Techniques and principles in language teaching. Second Edition. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Ulum, Ö. G. (2016). ESP Needs Analysis of Public Order Police Officers. International Online Journal of Education and Teaching (IOJET), 4(1). 19-30.
http://iojet.org/index.php/IOJET/article/view/147/147
http://www.careerpaths-esp.com
http://busyteacher.org/16311-teach-esp-for-police-officers
http://criminal.lawyers.com/traffic-violations/traffic-stops-and-roadblocks
Supplementary Instructional Materials:
Prepared by: Submitted to: Date Submitted:
Ka Lok Lee HILLARY JOY M. RUFINO July 27, 2021

Giselle Soriano Instructor

Angelina Doronio
Leonida Gamboa