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Academic Reading
EPY203 — Core — Semester 2
EPY203 — Core — Semester 2
Develops strategies for reading longer and more academic texts: predicting, identifying main ideas and supporting details, understanding text structure, working out vocabulary from context, inference and summarising.
To help learners read academic and semi-academic texts efficiently and with understanding.
| Week | Topic & Activity |
|---|---|
| 1 | Reading strategies Preview, predict and skim longer texts. Workshop: Reading smarter. |
| 4 | Main ideas Identify main ideas and supporting details. Task: Mapping an article. |
| 7 | Vocabulary in context Work out meaning from context and word parts. Lab: Academic Word List. |
| 10 | Inference Identify the writer's purpose and implied meaning. Seminar: Reading between the lines. |
| 13 | Summarising Write a short summary of an academic text. Task: Summary writing. |
Continuous assessment: weekly class tasks and a learning portfolio, a midterm progress check during the teaching weeks and an end-of-module assessment in the final exam week (a written task and, where relevant, a speaking assessment). Results are reported as Pass, Merit or Distinction, with the CEFR level reached in each skill.