course
Eng 109: Reading Skill and Vocabulary Building
This 3-credit 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