Course details
Efficient Reading of English Professional Texts
AEC Acad. year 2011/2012 Summer semester 3 credits
The course is focused on efficient reading and reading comprehension, mostly in combination with other skills. Different types of general and professional texts are used, as well as different reading techniques, such as scanning, skinning, intensive reading, and reading for problem solving. Both general and professional vocabulary are enriched. The course is suitable for the PGS exam and for other exams organized outside the faculty.
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Time span
- 26 hrs exercises
Department
Subject specific learning outcomes and competences
Students improve their reading skills, comprehension of English texts and they enrich their general and specialized vocabulary.
Learning objectives
Improvement of reading skills and reading comprehension. Mastering different types of specialized and general technical texts in English and different reading techniques.
Prerequisite knowledge and skills
Intermediate level of English, a completed BSc BAN4 course.
Study literature
- E. H. Glendinning: Oxford English for Information Technology, O.U.P.
- E. H. Glendinning: Study Reading, O.U.P.
- Autentické materiály z tisku a internetu.
- BBC English Magazine.
Syllabus of seminars
Item has no outline.
Syllabus of numerical exercises
- 1) Introduction, needs analysis questionnaire, course programme.
- 2) Evaluation of the questionnaire, reading techniques.
- 3) to 12) Scanning, skimming, intensive reading, vocabulary work, technical texts related to IT, communications, environment, safety, electrical engineering, British press, reading for study and research, etc. with a test in the 7th week.
- 13) Revision.
Progress assessment
Active and regular attendance and a completed test (20 points min.).
Controlled instruction
The content and forms of instruction in the evaluated course are specified by a regulation issued by the lecturer responsible for the course and updated for every academic year.