reading 4

252 najd

Description

Course number & Code: 252 Najd

Course title:

Reading IV (Level Four) / Contact hours: 2

Textbook: MOSAIC TWO

(Prerequisite: Reading III)

 

Content, objectives, and skills

This course aims at training students in silent reading of long advanced texts. The main

objective of the course is to develop the students’ critical and analytical abilities and

thinking when confronted to a variety of carefully selected texts. The secondary

objectives are to reinforce the reading skills taught in Level III and to train students to: 1)

understand the main and secondary ideas of texts, 2) discern subtle differences of ideas

and shades of meanings, 3) recognize the cause-effect relationships, 4) differentiate fact

from opinion, 5) detect bias and prejudice, 6) perceive implicit as well as explicit

relationships between words, sentences and ideas, 7) recognize valid arguments and draw

logical inferences and conclusions, 8) rephrase ideas for more clarity, and 9) summarize

texts.