Course

Semester 2

Emotions and Cognition

Intermediate Reading and Writing is designed to, firstly, help students develop their literal and inferential comprehension, practice the reading skills (previewing, skimming, scanning, guessing word meanings from context), develop their English vocabulary, and reading aloud ability. Throughout the course, students are encouraged to use reading strategies when reading various kinds of texts and to give simple critical responses to ideas presented in the texts. In general, tasks to foster students’ independence in developing their reading and writing skills are also given. Secondly, in order to specifically develop the students’ paragraph writing skills, the students are to practice writing topic sentences, supporting sentences, and concluding sentences as well as the concept of unity and coherence of a paragraph. On completing the course, the students are able to write using correct punctuation and spelling, use the concept of SV agreement, tenses, and grammar on their writing (covering recount, descriptive, procedure, and comparison) correctly. This course is compulsory and offered in Semester II. The prerequisite course for Intermediate Reading and Writing is Basic Reading and Writing.

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