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This document provides a course syllabus for READING III, a required English reading course for second year students at the National Economics University. The course aims to strengthen students' vocabulary and reading skills to prepare them for academic and real-life reading. Students will read passages of 800-1000 words on various topics and assess their comprehension. Assessment includes class participation, homework, midterm and final exams testing reading skills. The 12-week course meets weekly to cover 12 units applying a communicative approach with tasks and activities to improve reading rate and comprehension.

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Reading III Syllabus - Reading Explorer 4

This document provides a course syllabus for READING III, a required English reading course for second year students at the National Economics University. The course aims to strengthen students' vocabulary and reading skills to prepare them for academic and real-life reading. Students will read passages of 800-1000 words on various topics and assess their comprehension. Assessment includes class participation, homework, midterm and final exams testing reading skills. The 12-week course meets weekly to cover 12 units applying a communicative approach with tasks and activities to improve reading rate and comprehension.

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NATIONAL ECONOMICS UNIVERSITY

Faculty of Foreign Languages – Department of Business English


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READING III
Course Syllabus

1. General Information:

READING is a 4-level required course in the integrated curriculum of English


proficiency for students of English major at NEU. Such a program focuses on building
up and developing vocabulary together with reading skills and strategies that are useful
for students in their academic life as well as real life.

READING III is the third part of READING. The course is designed for the second year
students, who are supposed to be at the upper-intermediate level of English.

2. Course Objectives:

- To introduce to the students more reading skills and review those studied in the
previous levels;
- To continue to strengthen and improve the students’ vocabulary of English;
- To help the students effectively use the learnt vocabulary and reading skills in their
study and real life; and
- To create among the students self-motivation toward reading and love for reading,
thus contributing in promotion of a reading culture among the young people.

3. Learning Outcomes :

By the end of this course, the students should be able to:


- Read passages of about 800-1000 word length at a rate of 220 wpm on topics of
interest and relevancy today. These topics range from social issues, scientific
advances, food and health, and the environment to the fields of leisure, entertainment,
and culture;
- Develop critical thinking and information processing in general and in issues relating
to learned topics;
- Improve comprehension by understanding key ideas, supporting details, facts and
opinions, point of view;
- Improve comprehension by understanding inferred meaning and writer’s purpose,
paraphrasing main ideas, identifying arguments, themes;
- Understand new words using firstly the context, word classification, affixes and
suffixes, then dictionaries and thesaurus; and
- Decide whether to ignore or guess meaning of new words encountered.

4. Materials

This course uses an integrated set of materials developed by the instructors in charge. The
course book is as follows:
 Macintyre, P. & Bohlke, D. 2015. Reading Explorer 4. Cengage Learning.
Vocabulary book:
 Schmitt, D. & Schmitt, N. 2011. Focusing on Vocabulary 3: Mastering the Academic
Word List. Pearson.

5. Methodology

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Faculty of Foreign Languages – Department of Business English
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This course applies communicative approach, specifically
- Gives interactive instructions to students on the basis of exchanging ideas and
opinions;
- Gives task-based assignments;
- Provides topics of reading which are interesting and close and useful to the students’
real life;
- Integrates extra-curriculum activities such as competition, reading club, etc. ;

6. Assessment
Students’ performance in the course will be assessed on the following criteria:

Criteria % Requirements
1. Participation & 20 - 10%: Actively participate in at least 80% of the
Homework fulfillment total class hours and completing homework including
the vocabulary book.
- 10%: Reading Circles tasks
2. Mid-term reading test 20 Complete a written test of about 45 minutes with
various reading tasks.

3. Final Exam 60 Complete a written test of about 60 minutes with


various reading tasks
Total 100

Marking scale is 10/10.

7. Contents and Schedule


The course lasts for 12 weeks. The class meets once a week for 2 periods of 60 minutes
each. The content and schedule below will be adjusted during the course if needed.

Week Contents Reading Skills Vocabulary Building


1 Introduction to the Understanding words with Word Partnership: profound
course multiple meanings Thesaurus: thus
General review of Scanning for specific details
learned reading skills
Unit 1 – The Power
of Image
2 Unit 2 – Love and Distinguishing facts from Usage: chance
Attraction theories Thesaurus: absurd
Recognizing figurative language
3 Unit 3 – Food and Understanding cause and effect Word link: -wide

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Health relationships Thesaurus: diminish
Understanding arguments for
and against an issue
4 Unit 4 – Design and Recognizing collocations Word partnership: vital
Engineering Understanding synonyms and Word link: fore-
antonyms

5 Unit 5 – Human Understanding relative clauses Word partnership: proof


Journey (I) Thesaurus: stubborn
Synthesizing information
6 Unit 6 – Recognizing conditional Word partnership: vibrant
Conservation relationships Word partnership: chaos
Challenges Sequencing information
7 Unit 7 – Ritual Lives Understanding words from Word link: gress
context Thesaurus: striking
Understanding word roots and
affixes
8 Mid-term test Evaluating theories Usage: grand
Unit 8 – Understanding idiomatic Word link: leg
Investigations expressions

9 Unit 9 – Recognizing the use of ellipsis Word partnership: virtual


Rediscovering the Understanding relative clauses Word partnership: exception
Past (II)
10 Unit 10 – Earth and Visualizing from an author’s Thesaurus: preposterous
Beyond description Word link: di-
Understanding references to
things beyond the text
11 Unit 11 – Green Identifying sources of Thesaurus: leak
Concerns information Word partnership: substance
Understandi
ng a writer’s attitude and bias
12 Unit 12 – Living Identifying reasons Word link: gen
Longer Understanding quantitative and Word partnership: relief
Revision qualitative data

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