Literal Reading
This course is designed to develop students competence in literal reading (i.e. knowing and comprehending) of non-fictional texts at post-intermediate level, emphasizing the use of appropriate reading strategies to identify the meaning and use of unfamiliar lexical items, the topic and the main idea from supporting details of the texts; understand explicit information; skim and scan specific information; understand the communicative value of sentences; and recognize types of writing. Thus, the learning outcomes are developing on the skills of analyzing, paraphrasing, speed-reading, and reading critically.