PROGRAM STUDI: PENDIDIKAN BAHASA INGGRIS
JURUSAN PENDIDIKAN BAHASA INGGRIS
FACULTAS PENDIDIKAN BAHASA INGGRIS
UNIVERSITAS PENDIDIKAN INDONESIA
Course
Code
Credit
Lecturers
: Reading for Academic Purposes
: IG 425
: 2 Credits
:
1. Objectives
At the end of the semester, students are able to:
1. comprehend different types of texts (essay, opinion paper, journal articles, reviews)
2. get familiar with reading strategies to be independent readers
3. developing reading strategies (identifying authors’ point of view, purpose and tone, intended audience, summarizing, paraphrasing and
synthesizing)
2. Course Description:
This course covers comprehension of academic texts such as essays, opinion paper, journal articles, reviews. The students are expected to get
familiar with reading strategies that include summarizing, paraphrasing and synthesizing) to be independent readers and apply those strategies.
3. Learning Activities:
Learning activities include discussions on topics
4. Evaluation:
Evaluation will be based on the following components:
1. Class participation
: 10%
2. Midterm Exam
: 20 %
3. Assignments
:30%
4. Final Exam
: 40 %
Grading Policy:
A = 85 – 100
B = 76 – 84
C = 60 -75
D = 50 – 59
E ≤ 49
5. Media: Handouts, Power Point
6. Course Outline:
Weeks
Topics
1
Introduction to Course Outline
2
Part 1: Topic
3
Part 2: Main Idea
4
Part 3: Drawing Inferences
5
Exercises on Drawing Inferences
6
Part 4: Tone
7
8
9
Exercises on the Purpose and Tone of Texts
MidTerm Exam
Part 5: Patterns of Organization
10
Exercises on Patterns of Organization
11
Part 6: Paraphrasing and Summarizing
12
Exercises on Paraphrasing and Summarizing
13
Exercises on Paraphrasing and summarizing
14
Synthesizing
Source
Lecturer’s syllabus and handout
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FINAL EXAM
7. References:
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Hartman, Pamela and Laurie Blass. 2007. Quest 3: Reading and Writing. New York: McGraw Hill
COURSE UNITS
Session
Topics
1
Introduction to the course outline
2
Topic
3
Main Idea
4
Drawing Inferences
5
Drawing Inferences
6
Tone
Specific Objectives
Students will be wellinformed about the topics,
materials and course
requirements
Students will be able to
identify the topic of reading
texts
Students will be able to
formulate the main idea of
paragraphs/texts and
distinguishing main ideas
from supporting details
Students will be able to draw
inferences and understand
implied message from the
texts
Students will be able to draw
inferences and understand
implied message from the
texts
Students will be able to
identify the tone and purpose
of the author
Learning
Activities
Lecturing
Evaluation
and
Assignmets
QA session
Sources
Discussion
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Lecturer’s syllabus and handout
7
Tone
Students will be able to
Discussion
identify the tone and purpose
of the author
MIDTERM EXAM
9
Patterns of organization
10
Patterns of organization
Students will be able to
identify and differentiate
patterns of organizations of
essays
Students will be able to
identify and differentiate
patterns of organizations of
essays
8
QA session
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Discussion
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Paraphrasing
and
Summarizing
12
Paraphrasing
and
Summarizing
13
Paraphrasing
and
Summarizing
14
Synthesizing
15
Synthesizing
16
Students will be
able to paraphrase
and summarize
paragraphs/ texts
Students will be
able to paraphrase
and summarize
paragraphs/ texts
Students will be
able to paraphrase
and summarize
paragraphs/ texts
Students will be
able to synthesize
ideas from
different texts.
Students will be
able to synthesize
ideas from
different texts.
Discussion
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FINAL EXAM