Study-Unit Description

Study-Unit Description


CODE IFS0505

 
TITLE Reading for Academic Business Studies

 
UM LEVEL 00 - Mod Pre-Tert, Foundation, Proficiency & DegreePlus

 
MQF LEVEL 4

 
ECTS CREDITS 5

 
DEPARTMENT Business Studies

 
DESCRIPTION This study-unit is designed to develop the reading skills necessary to function effectively as a student of business studies at the University of Malta. Throughout the year the students will work to develop the fundamental reading skills necessary to comprehend academic texts in English successfully. As they move on in the course and progress through the levels they will also be encouraged to develop the more advanced reading skills that are essential to perform in an English speaking academic context.

Study-Unit Aims:

The principal aim of the study-unit is to prepare students to engage effectively with the reading requirements of various business studies degree courses. Students are expected to develop the following skills:

- Understand the main ideas of a text;
- Read for specific information;
- Identify redundant information;
- Understand text organisation;
- Predict content from context;
- Check comprehension;
- Infer;
- Deal with unfamiliar words;
- Understand writer’s style;
- React to the text;
- Read extensively;
- Read Actively;
- Recall and review.

Learning Outcomes:

1. Knowledge & Understanding:

By the end of the study-unit the student will be able to:
- Engage effectively with authentic academic texts.
- Form target questions and select texts which are likely to hold the answers, discarding irrelevant information and texts.
- Deal with an advanced reading requirement effectively and at speed.
- Identify and reproduce the main points of a text orally and in writing.
- Recognise text organization enabling the rapid location of specific information.
- Evaluate and analyse a text and the information it contains to answer specific questions and form new ideas.
- Comment on the audience and purpose of a text.
- Evaluate the reliability of a text.

2. Skills:

By the end of the study-unit the student will be able to:
- Demonstrate effective reading skills to deduce meaning, confirm expectations, extract specific information and main points, infer opinion and attitude and identify relevant and irrelevant information;
- Write useful, relevant and coherent notes and summaries.

Main Text/s and any supplementary readings:

Foundation in Academic Business English: Reading Coursebook and Workbook Wilkinson, N'Shea and Stabile 2017. In-house textbooks.

 
STUDY-UNIT TYPE Lecture, Independent Study & Tutorial

 
METHOD OF ASSESSMENT
Assessment Component/s Assessment Due Sept. Asst Session Weighting
Oral and Written Exercises SEM2 Yes 40%
Progress Test (2 Hours) SEM1 No 20%
Examination (2 Hours) SEM2 Yes 40%

 
LECTURER/S Ruth Bellizzi

 

 
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