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Department of European Studies & Modern Languages, Unit Catalogue 2007/08


EU10442 Reading & vocabulary

Credits: 3
Level: Certificate
Semester: 1
Assessment: CW 100%
Requisites:
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.