English Language - Department

The Department of English Language and Literature at Princess Alia University College continues to contribute to the development of the college in particular and Al-Balqa Applied University in general as a prestigious academic institution at the local and regional levels. The Department of English Language and Literature is one of the most essential departments in the college, as it is the destination of many new female students. The Department of English Language and Literature offers two academic programs: a BA in English Language and Literature and an intermediate diploma in translation.

Vision Achieving excellence and creativity in mastering the English language and literature and leadership in scientific research. Mission Preparing specialists who possess different skills in English language, literature, and translation and qualifying them to meet the market's needs.

Department Objectives

• Enhancing students’ linguistic skills: listening, speaking, reading, and writing
• Providing students with essential linguistic, literary, and translation knowledge
• providing students with reading and analyzing literary texts skills based on multiple literary theories.
• Enhancing students’ abilities to employ linguistic theories in analyzing texts
• Gaining proficiency in creative literary writing.
• Translating texts from Arabic to English and vice versa.
• Expressing, debating, and arguing using semantics and pragmatics theories.
• Respecting and accepting other opinions and respect for cultural differences.
• Applying psycholinguistics theories in the fields of language acquisition and teaching.
• Thinking creatively and critically.
• Applying psycholinguistics theories in the fields of language acquisition and teaching
• Contributing to the development of society.