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 Academic Year:
| 2012/3 |
| Owning Department/School:
| English Language Centre |
| Credits:
| 3 |
| Level:
| Certificate (FHEQ level 4) |
| Period: |
Semester 2 |
| 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. |
| Programme availability: |
EL10272 is a Generally Available Unit which is available to all students of the University (subject to the usual constraints) to take as an 'extra' unit which does not count towards a final award.English Language Centre
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