Course Details in 2023/24 Session

Module Title	LC English for Academic Purposes: Academic Reading
School	Mathematics
Department	Mathematics
Module Code	09 32697
Module Lead	Terry Shortall
Level	Certificate Level
Credits	5
Semester	Semester 1
Pre-requisites
Co-requisites	LC English for Academic Purposes: Academic Writing - (09 32696) LC English for Academic Purposes: Listening and Speaking - (09 32695)
Restrictions	Available only to students on the JI dual degree programmes
Exclusions
Description	This module examines the different skills and knowledges used in reading text: inferencing, schemata, top-down pro-cessing, bottom-up processing, skimming, scanning, shared assumptions, knowledge of colocations. In this way, students use critical thinking skills to obtain an under-standing of how written texts are structured. There will be a strong emphasis in this course on getting students to acquire the ability to read without dependence on phone-based bilingual dictionaries, first through an em-phasis on the skills of skimming and summarizing, and secondly on the use of monolingual dictionaries where dic-tionaries are required.
Learning Outcomes	By the end of the module students should be able to: Demonstrate capacity to read texts fluently and quickly (using skimming, top-down processing, etc.). Show ability to read texts without recourse to bilingual dictionaries. Exhibit competence in the use of monolingual dictionaries to understand words and their contexts. Demonstrate ability to summarize texts that have been read. Exhibit ability to read texts for specific information (scanning; bottom-up processing). Demonstrate that can use extra-textual information to infer meaning (inferencing). Evidence ability to answer comprehension questions on specific academic texts. Show that can identify and classify collocations.
Assessment
Assessment Methods & Exceptions	First Semester: First semester exam to test ability to skim, scan and summarize, to understand and use collocations appropriately, to locate specific information in academic texts (25%) Group presentations on academic collocations and/or summarizing texts (20%) Class participation (5%) Second Semester: Second semester exam to test ability to skim, scan and summarize, to understand and use collocations appropriately, to locate specific information in academic texts (25%) Group presentations on academic collocations and/or summarizing texts (20%) Class participation (5%)
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