| CODE | IFS0423 | ||||||||||||||||
| TITLE | English Reading | ||||||||||||||||
| UM LEVEL | 00 - Mod Pre-Tert, Foundation, Proficiency & DegreePlus | ||||||||||||||||
| MQF LEVEL | 3 | ||||||||||||||||
| ECTS CREDITS | 5 | ||||||||||||||||
| DEPARTMENT | International School for Foundation Studies | ||||||||||||||||
| DESCRIPTION | IFS0423 will help students wishing to join the foundation programme to engage with a variety of text types in English and to complete a variety of academic task types that will allow them to demonstrate comprehension and critical approaches to reading at this level Study-Unit Aims: The study-unit aims to introduce a variety of academic text types to students with no-to-little prior experience of engaging with the reading requirmements in an academic context. Learning Outcomes: 1. Knowledge & Understanding: By the end of the study-unit the student will be able to: - Distinguish between a variety of text types, including journal articles, newspaper articles, text book excerpts, online encyclopaedias, websites of commercial, governmental and non-governmental organisations; - Find texts online that are relevant to a research topic; - Evaluate texts for relevance and academic reliability; - Generate research questions on the content of a text before reading. 2. Skills: By the end of the study-unit the student will be able to: - Take notes from a text on points relevant to a specific topic; - Report information from a text in student’s own words; - Answer comprehension questions about text content; - Summarise key points from a text; - Write a reference list and in-text citations in Harvard format. Main Text/s and any supplementary readings: Teacher's notes |
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| ADDITIONAL NOTES | Pre-requisite Qualifications: High school certificate. | ||||||||||||||||
| STUDY-UNIT TYPE | Lecture, Independent Study & Tutorial | ||||||||||||||||
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| LECTURER/S | James Formosa |
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