به گزارش روابط عمومی مرکز آموزش زبان دانشگاه امام صادق علیه السلام، کتاب «Prerequisite English Course» اثر تالیفی آقای علیرضا روشمن ضمیر عضو هیات علمی مرکز آموزش زبان دانشگاه امام صادق علیه السلام است که توسط انتشارات دانشگاه امام صادق علیه السلام، در سال 1400 و در 108 صفحه منتشر شده است. این کتاب می تواند به عنوان راهنمای دانشجویانی باشد که می خواهند دانش خود را در زمینه اصول زبان انگلیسی برای رعایت استانداردهای پذیرش دانشگاه و واجد شرایط بودن برای ورود به برنامه درسی رسمی انگلیسی بهبود بخشند.
فصول این کتاب برای پر کردن شکاف و کمک به زبان آموزان است که نگاهی تازه تر به مسائل اساسی داشته باشند که نیاز به بازنگری، تمرین و توسعه دارند. علیرغم تنوع موضوعات موجود در کتاب که هر کدام تأثیر خاص خود را در یادگیری زبان دارند، موضوع اصلی، الگوهای جملات و سازماندهی جملات است. تسلط خوب به این الگوها برای بهبود دانش انگلیسی و تولید دقیق ترین خروجی بسیار مفید است. این کتاب هم برای خودآموزی و هم برای کلاس طراحی شده است. این کتاب یک کتاب چند وظیفه ای است که در آن دانش آموزان باید گوش دادن، خواندن، صحبت کردن و نوشتن را تمرین کنند. ناگفته نماند که مربی نقش اصلی را در جهت دهی توجه فراگیران به اهداف مشخص شده و ارائه تمرین ها و تکالیف بیشتر برای کمک به دانش آموزان در تثبیت درک خود از هر یک از موارد تدریس شده دارد. در معرفی این کتاب آمده است:

This book can serve as a guide for students who want to improve their knowledge of the fundamentals of English language for meeting the university's admission standards and making themselves eligible for entering the official English curriculum. Its audience is primarily those who have entered university with a high school background of English learning, but not yet able to organize their achievement in a manner that can let them produce correct output, whether of speech or writing, or do correct reading comprehension. The instructors are well familiar with the university freshmen who show keenness for boosting their English skills, but feel at a loss and implore assistance. They may show some degree of almost fluency in oral presentation, but they are still lacking in a sufficient understanding of the fundamental aspects of language learning, which goes back to the shortcomings of their high school training. The chapters here are to fill the gap and help the learners take a fresher look at the basic issues that need to be reconsidered, practiced and developed.

The book is designed for both self-study and class, though the latter's high efficiency is undeniable, since the instructor's guidance, explanation and further assigned programs will be of great importance in helping the learners master each item presented. Despite the variety of issues in the book, each having its specific effect in language learning, the underlying topic is, however, the sentence patterns and sentence organization. A good command of these patterns is extremely helpful in improving both one's knowledge of English and producing the most exact output. The instructors are advised to cover all the chapters in a timely and well- organized manner, by clarifying all the necessary points, and by providing further practical examples and encouraging learners to practice them as much as possible throughout the allotted time and sessions. Quizzes and other class activities could be of great help to assess the students' progress, only if they are accompanied by additional correction sessions. All in all, the assessment procedures must illustrate the students' degree and speed of progress clearly and sufficiently, and help the instructor eliminate the students' still remaining failures because they are supposed to continue their study of English without committing such common (and irritating!) spelling, pronunciation, punctuation, word recognition and structural mistakes.

The book is a multi-tasked one, in which students have to practice listening, reading, speaking and writing. Each section contains short passages for analysis and oral reproduction plus some exercises. A number of 60 commonly used questions and answers appear throughout the sections. These questions plus the dialogs are to be accompanied with the necessary individual, pair and group repetition by emphasizing the correct pronunciation and intonation. A reasonable use of dictionaries as basic tools for drawing information, practicing correct pronunciation, paying more attention to spelling, getting more conscious about sentence structures, and developing one's ability to recognize words and their forms and their meanings in context are all included in the program. Needless to say, the instructor has the major role in directing the attention of the learners to the specified goals and in providing further exercises and assignments to help students consolidate their understanding of each item taught.

This book is published in 105 pages and at a price of 50,000 Tomans by Imam Sadegh University Press.