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Course description:

This course aims to provide students' fundamental reading skills with particular attention on vocabulary development, understanding denotation and connotation, making inferences and judgments, reading comprehension, fluency and interpretation. In addition, the course fosters skills of scanning, skimming and prediction through extensive reading.  Crucial analysis skills in relationship to various texts will be introduced.

 

 

Course Aims:

Course seeks to enable students to achieve the following objectives:

• Identify the basic reading skills and sub-skills.
• Improve students' reading ability in English to read clearly and carefully.
• Expand and develop vocabulary through knowledge of affixation and some other processes of lexical derivation.
• Infer the meaning of specific words in a given reading text and use them in appropriate context.
• Find the main idea in the reading text.
• Identify the topic sentence and the main idea and supporting details of each paragraph and of the entire text.
• Answer multiple types of yes/no questions and wh questions.
• Find the writer's attitude and point of view.
• Distinguish between facts and opinions and express students' personal judgment.
• Be familiar with scan and skim reading activities.

 

Course outcomes:

Intended Learning Outcomes:

• Better read and master the basic reading comprehension skills.
• Collect and learn by heart a great amount of new English vocabulary.
• Possess the reading skills to interpret the writer's message and attitude in a reading text.
• Understand what is written between the lines in any reading text.
• Acquire the critical analysis skill and apply it in any reading text.