Syllabus: English Reading Skills
Paper Code : 211101
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Marks : 100
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Credits : 4
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Class Hours : 60
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Paper Title :
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English Reading Skills
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The Paper seeks to
develop student’ reading skills and covers the following sub-skills:
01. Guessing word meanings by using knowledge of word form
(class), word function, word structure and formation and most importantly,
contextual clues.
02. Understanding ornamental expressions
03. Tackling sentence meaning,
04. Surveying text organization,
05. Reading for specific information (skimming)
06. Reading for general comprehension/gist (scanning),
07. Summarizing,
08. Predicting,
09. Interpreting and
10. Recognizing, author’s position, tone and attitude
The reading texts will be chosen from different types of
writing like descriptive, narrative, expository, argumentative, journalistic
and academic text e.g. History, Philosophy etc.
Recommended books:
Williams. E. 1984 Reading in the Language Classroom. Macmillan
Wallace.1992. Reading, OUP
Barr. P. Clegg, J. and Wallace, C. 1981 Advance Reading
Skills Longman
Walter, Catherine. 1988. Class Readers, OUP