Spada Universitas Prima Indonesia

ABOUT COURSE

Subject:  Language Testing

Code: ING62157

Semester: VI MORNING/EVENING (ENGLISH DEPARTMENT)

1. Course Description

This course is intended to provide students with basic knowledge of language testing. It helps them develop an understanding, knowledge, and skills needed to develop language tests.

2. Standard Competence

At the end of the course, students are expected to be able to:

• explain some common misconceptions about language testing and resulting problems
• explain competence in language testing
• explain the qualities of language tests
• describe language tasks
• describe language ability
• explain stages and activities in test development
• develop an English language test
• develop the scoring method.

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