Reading for Specific Purposes - SBI6265

While further developing the skills introduced and developed in Basic Read­ing (getting general and specific information from the text, getting the main ideas and detail­ed information from the text, deducing the meaning of words, phrases and sen­tences based on the context, and explaining re­lations between parts of the text through grammatical cohesive devices, and deve­lop­ing the skills of inferencing, analysing, synthesizing, and speed reading), Reading for Spesific Purposes improves the skills of eva­­luat­ing texts or reading critically. This course aims at the de­ve­­lop­ment of vocabulary up to 7500 words with relevant gramma­tical struc­tures. It is accomplished by ex­pos­ing the students to both printed and elec­tro­nic reading resources, both ex­tracts and full-scale texts of ge­neral and spe­cific topics. In addition, students are introduced to formal texts (such as documents, business letters or official speeches) and specia­lized texts such as brief, self-contained, texts com­monly used in TOEFL read­ing tests. The skills of sum­ma­­rising and eva­luating texts are developed. While indi­vi­dual per­for­manc­es are noted, pair and group work should be encouraged. Assessment of success is based on portfolios and mid-term as well as final exa­mina­tions