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Department of European Studies & Modern Languages, Unit Catalogue 2006/07 |
EU10442 Reading & vocabulary |
| Credits: 3 |
| Level: Certificate |
| Semester: 1 |
| Assessment: CW 100% |
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Aims: To enable students to raise the standard of their degree course work through reading more effectively and through expanding their vocabulary from their reading.
Learning Outcomes: Having completed this unit students will be better able to: * read more quickly and efficiently * understand written texts * take notes from written texts * use a wide range of specialist and non-specialist vocabulary * use their newly acquired vocabulary in their writing. Skills: Having completed this unit students will be better able to: * Approach new reading material with confidence. Content: * Prediction * Skimming and scanning * Reading for gist * Improving reading speed * Note-taking from written texts * Understanding the writer's intention * Understanding the meaning of a text * Distinguishing fact from opinion * Evaluating a text * Understanding words in context * Building new words from given vocabulary items * Using new vocabulary in writing. |
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