Reading comprehension 1

 Module Description                                                       

The course aims at introducing students to and training them in reading strategies and skills. It will address the following skills and strategies: mechanics of reading, reading techniques (elementary skimming and scanning), vocabulary skills (use of contextual, syntactic, and morphological clues to improve vocabulary comprehension) and extracting general information.

Module Aims

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

1. Answer relevant comprehension questions on any given text.

2. Apply different reading techniques: elementary skimming and scanning.

3. Use contextual, syntactic, and morphological clues to guess the meaning of new vocabulary and to extract general meaning.