| Course Code: |
6390101 |
| METU Credit (Theoretical-Laboratory hours/week): |
4(4-1) |
| ECTS Credit: |
6.0 |
| Language of Instruction: |
English |
| Level of Study: |
Undergraduate |
| Course Coordinator: |
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| Offered Semester: |
Fall Semesters. |
By the end of the course students will
-comprehend ideas, opinions and facts in academic texts
-reflect on ideas and facts in oral and written expressions
-apply rules of academic writing
-comprehend academic presentations, interviews, lectures, talks
-demonstrate academic speaking skills
The course reinforces academic reading skills (finding the main idea, skimming, scanning, inferring information, guessing vocabulary from context, etc.) through reading selections on a variety of topics. It also aims at developing critical thinking, which enables students to respond to the ideas in a well organized written format. Other reading related writing skills such as paraphrasing and summarizing are also dealt with.
By the end of the course students will be able to
- use relevant reading strategies (i.e. skimming, scanning, previewing) according to different text and task types
- infer the underlying meaning of a given sentence or parts of an academic text
- identify key ideas, points of reference, types of figurative speech and writer’s technique in an academic text
- distinguish between facts and opinions in an academic text
- guess the meaning of unknown words in an academic text
- use different types of dictionaries (i.e. bilingual, monolingual, collocation and thesaurus)
- recognize the relationship between ideas in a text and between multiple texts
-break down complex sentences into meaningful chunks
- understand syntactical relations among the parts of long complex sentences
- initiate and maintain discussions
- express opinions clearly
- respond to questions
- listen for specific information
- use correct, appropriate language structures, vocabulary and discourse markers in written and oral production
- write unified and coherent academic paragraphs (expository and reaction) and essay (expository)
- carry out the stages in a process writing approach during writing paragraphs and/or essays
- produce compound and complex sentences in writing
