COURSE SPECIFICATION
COURSE
TITLE
ARABIC
CODE/ NO.
CODE/
SUNITS
Th.
Pr.
CH
PRE-REQUISITES
Tr.
NO.
Reading (1)
LANE 212
‫لين‬212
3
TOTAL
3
3
Brief contents, to be posted on university site and documents(4-5 lines):
This course reinforces reading skills on students reading ability.
More focus is on
comprehension monitoring, assessment, idiomatic and figurative language and critical thinking
tasks. Communicative activities are considered in discussing purpose, and giving opinion.
Comprehensive questions and exercises are applicable.
Course objectives:
1) To train students to read skillfully.
2) To improve students ability to understand long passages and articles.
3) To enable students to think critically and to relate themes of different paragraphs of a topic.
4) To check students language competence in understanding question and in forming answers.
Course Outcome:
Knowledge
Improving students' ability to understand long passages and articles. Enabling students to think
critically and to relate themes of different paragraphs of a topic.
Cognitive Skills
Comprehension monitoring, assessment, idiomatic and figurative language and critical thinking tasks
Interpersonal skills and responsibilities
(Using Audio devices, Group participation, leadership, personal responsibility, ethic and moral
behaviour, capacity for self directed learning, Using digital sets, Internet, Computer)
Analysis and Communicative Skills
Communicative activities are considered in discussing purpose, and giving opinion
Evaluation:
Mid–tem tests, seminar, discussions, participation, pairs and groups activities, and final examination
Prescribed Books:
Elaine Kirn and Others, Interactions I - Reading Gold edition
Other Information Resources
Mark Ellis & Printha Ellis Take It As Read, Nelson, 2000 .
E. Davies and N. Whitney, Strategies for Reading Heinemann, 2002.
E. Davies and N. Whitney, Study Skills for Reading, Heinemann, 2006.
Timetable of Syllabus
Week
Titles
Sections
1
Comprehension monitoring and assessment
Unit I
2
Distinguishing statement of fact from beliefs, hypotheses
Unit I
3
expressions of probability, uncertainty
Unit II
4
Understanding idiomatic
Unit II
5
Figurative language
Unit III
6
Selecting relevant information from texts for particular purposes –
Giving opinion, discussion
Unit III
7
Interpreting charts, graphs, tables
Unit IV
8
Midterm Test 1
9
Diagrammatic or pictorial representations of information
Unit V
10
Drawing conclusions and generalizations
Unit VI
11
Free reading
Unit VII
12
Midterm Test 2
13
Answering questions and Exercises
Unit VIII
14
Advanced reading
Unit IX
15
Non-fictional Prose
Unit X
Final Exam