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King Abdulaziz University
Department of European Languages and Literature Fall 2008-2009
Reading II - LANE 215 – Course Syllabus
Instructor Haifa Alroqi Website www.kau.edu.sa/halroqi Office Al-Jawhara Bldg. / Rm. 132 E-mail [email protected] Office
Hours 12 pm – 1 pm / S.M.W
Course Description:
This course, Reading II, LANE 215, is taught in three hours per week. Reading I, LANE 212 is required as a prerequisite. The course aims to further develop students’ reading skills and strategies, and to increase their reading speed and comprehension by making them read more regularly. Each student is required to give two presentations about a reading material of her choice. The first presentation is a book overview. The second presentation is a full review of the same book.
Students will also work on vocabulary building on regular basis throughout the semester. The class will introduce and emphasize group-work and Thinking Based Learning strategies.
Course Objectives:
The course aims at enabling students to:
- express main ideas in readings
- increase their reading rate in order to handle a heavy academic reading load - synthesize material from different sources
- Identify causes and effects in readings - recognize and use bibliographic citations
- create graphic organizers to help them visualize ideas in readings - draw inferences from reading
- evaluate different viewpoints on a common subject - annotate, or mark, texts
- recognize generalizations and examples
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The following chapters are to be covered in LANE 215 course for Fall semester 2008-09:
- Chapter 1: A Campus of Readers - Chapter 3: Tales of the Sea
- Chapter 5: The Gender-Role Revolution - Chapter 6: Affluenza
- Chapter 8: The Job Puzzle
Extra Material:
Throughout the semester, extra materials about current affairs are introduced and discussed in class. Students are encouraged to bring selected reading items, such as books, newspapers, articles, journals, etc, that interest them. All extra reading items will be collected in a class library.
The students are encouraged to add to and borrow from this library. All materials will be returned to the students at the end of the semester.
Required Textbook:
Fellag , L. R. (2005) Tapestry, Reading 3. (Middle East Ed.). Boston: Thomson Heinle.
Course Assessment:
Quiz 1 --- 20
Quiz 2 --- 20
Presentation 1 --- 10
Presentation 2--- 10
Final Exam --- 40
________________________________________ Total 100
* For more information about Presentation 1 and Presentation 2, please read Major Reading Assignment Guidelines.
Attendance policy:
- Students are expected to be punctual and attend all classes.
- If a student arrives after the scheduled beginning time for class, it will be put down in the attendance sheet as Late (3 times Late = 1 absence).
- Being absent for more than 20% of allocated course time means that the student will receive a DN (denied from final exam) grade which is equivalent to an F.
