ENG 109

This course aims at introducing students to improve reading ability and training them to learn vocabulary. This is achieved through an intensive practice in reading. It will address the following skills and strategies: Guessing meaning of words from context, mechanics of reading, reading techniques (skimming and scanning), paraphrase main ideas, word formation, use of contextual, syntactic, morphological clues, guessing meaning of new words from context and learning to summarize.