ABOUT COURSE
Subject: Reading II
Code: ING62115
Semester: II Morning A/E
1. Course Description
Reading II aims at critical reading and interlanguage development through
exposure to motivating texts of selected genres, containing lexicogrammatical and
phonic features suiting the students’ level of language mastery. Text types are
focused on News Item, Exposition, and Discussion. While individual performances
are noted, pair and group work should be encouraged. The assessment of success is
based on portfolios and mid-term as well as a final examination.
2. Standard Competences
By the end of the course, the students are expected to have the ability of:
- getting general and specific information from the text
- getting the main ideas and detailed information from the text
- deducing the meaning of words, phrases, and sentences based on the context
- explaining relations between parts of the text through grammatical cohesive devices
- developing the skills of inference, analyzing, synthesizing, and speed reading
