English Language Centre, Unit Catalogue 2009/10 |
EL10271: Reading & vocabulary |
 Credits:
| 3 |
| Level:
| Certificate |
| Period: | Semester 1 |
| Assessment:
| CW 100% |
| Supplementary Assessment: | Like-for-like reassessment (where allowed by programme regulations) |
| Requisites:
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| Description: | Aims: To enable students to raise the standard of their degree course work through reading more effectively and through expanding their vocabulary from their reading. Learning Outcomes: Having completed this unit students will be better able to: * read more quickly and efficiently * understand written texts * take notes from written texts * use a wide range of specialist and non-specialist vocabulary * use their newly acquired vocabulary in their writing. Skills: Having completed this unit students will be better able to: * Approach new reading material with confidence. Content: * Prediction * Skimming and scanning * Reading for gist * Improving reading speed * Note-taking from written texts * Understanding the writer's intention * Understanding the meaning of a text * Distinguishing fact from opinion * Evaluating a text * Understanding words in context * Building new words from given vocabulary items * Using new vocabulary in writing. |