Course title |
Advanced English Reading |
Course Code |
0210201 |
Course Level |
Undergraduate 3 |
Academic Session |
5th Semester |
Credit Points |
2 |
Notional Hours |
34 |
Teaching Hours |
34 |
Aims
This course, a student-centered reading skills textbook based on a cognitive skills approach, aims to enhance the students’ intensive and extensive reading abilities and to help advanced students master reading skills needed for academic success: Extensive Reading helps students to build reading fluency, increase comprehension, and broaden vocabulary. Vocabulary Building includes numerous strategies for learning vocabulary, including using context clues, analyzing word parts, and noticing collocations. Comprehension Skills teaches reading skills, such as making inferences, recognizing patterns of organization, and reading critically. Reading Faster features high-interest, nonfiction selections that help students improve their reading rate and flexibility.
Learning Outcomes
1.guessingthemeaningof words according to the context and knowledge of word-formation.
2.Improving the reading speed.
3.Getting the main idea of one-thousand-word article within 6 minutes.
4.Applying English Rhetoric Devices:
similes and metaphors
personification
reification
hyperbole
paradox and irony euphemism
cliche
Idioms
5.Understanding the western culture.
6.Writing book reviews, summary, comments and analysis.
Teaching and Learning
Lecture and presentations by the lecturer will be integrated with students centered in-class activities including tasks and exercises, independent, group and pair work. A number of seminars will be held on the topics introduced in class.
Assessment
Assessment Type |
Weighing Factor |
Pass Mark |
Description |
Attendance |
10% |
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Performance |
10% |
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Assignment |
20% |
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Final examination |
60% |
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Basic Reading List
1.Brontë, Emily: Wuthering Heights（艾米丽·勃朗特《呼啸山庄》）
2.Chekhov, Anton: The Cherry Orchard（契科夫《樱桃园》）
3.Conrad, Joseph: Heart of Darkness（约瑟夫·康拉德《黑暗之心》）
4.Cooper, James Fenimore: The Last of the Mohicans（费米摩尔·库珀《最后一个莫西干人》）
5.Dostoyevsky, Fyodor: Crime and Punishment（陀思妥耶夫斯基《罪与罚》）
6.Eliot, George: The Mill on the Floss（乔治·艾略特《弗洛斯河上的磨坊》）7
7.Emerson, Ralph Waldo: Selected Essays（R.W.爱默生《散文集》）
8.Golding, William: Lord of the Flies（威廉·戈尔丁《蝇王》）
9.Hardy, Thomas: Tess of the d'Urbervilles（托马斯·哈代《德伯家的苔丝》）
10.Heller, Joseph: Catch 22（约瑟夫·海勒《第二十二条军规》）
11.James, Henry: The Portrait of a Lady（亨利·詹姆斯《一位女士的画像》）
12.Kingston, Maxine Hong: The Woman Warrior（汤婷婷《女勇士》）
13.Lewis, Sinclair: Babbitt（辛克莱尔·刘易斯《兔子》）
14.O'Connor, Flannery: A Good Man is Hard to Find（弗兰纳尔·奥康纳《好人难寻》）
15.Orwell, George: 1984（乔治·奥威尔《1984》）
16.Shakespeare, William: Hamlet（莎士比亚《哈姆雷特》）
17.Shakespeare, William: Romeo and Juliet（莎士比亚《罗密欧与朱丽叶》）
18.Thoreau, Henry David: Walden（H.D.梭罗《瓦尔登湖》）
19.Turgenev, Ivan: Fathers and Sons（伊凡·屠格涅夫《父与子》）
20.Wilde, Oscar: The Picture of Dorian Gray（奥斯卡·王尔德《道连·葛雷画像》）