Objectives
Provide the students with effective strategies of
reading authentic academic texts and
strategies for writing from sources.
Students are required to understand and respond to academic texts and write from authentic academic sources related to FL/ EFL contexts, during the period of their MA training.
In this semester, the students are supposed to understand how to effectively read academic texts . The following is the outline of the first semester syllabus of Academic reading and writing:
Academic Reading
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1. The nature and characteristics of Academic reading - Types of Academic Texts and Terminology |
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2.Strategies of effective Academic Reading: |
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Note -taking |
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skimming |
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scanning |
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Guessing meanings (guessing unknown words) |
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Establishing a purpose |
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surveying |
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Critical reading |
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Critical reading making judgment about a text |