Najl 113- Reading Comprehension

Course Description & Syllabus
Reading comprehension 1(Najl 113)
111 نجل
Course code:
A )916( / A )906(
section number:
2 hours
Credit hours:
Sunday/Monday
Days:
The course provides students with some of the necessary skills in reading comprehension such as skimming, understanding main ideas, recognizing paragraphs, identifying topic sentences and supporting sentences, using context clues, summarizing, etc. through topic selections that they are familiar with in their daily life. Students will also be assigned tasks that are relevant to reading skills. In addition, students can improve their ability in thinking and giving personal opinions.
Description:
 To encourage students to become actively involved in their own reading development
 To develop students’ reading comprehension skills
 To improve students’ abilities in thinking and giving personal opinions
 To improve students’ communication skills through reading selections
Course objectives:
Interactions 2, by Pamela Hartmann & Elaine Kirn, McGraw-Hill ESL/ELT, 2007. Gold Edition
Textbook:
15%
Mid-term1
Course evaluation:
15%
Mid-term2
10%
Attendance and participation
10%
Assignments
50%
Final exam

The course aims at introducing students to different reading strategies and skills.
It addresses the following skills and strategies:

1. Mechanics of reading,
2. Reading techniques
3. Vocabulary skills
4. Extracting general information.