Undergraduate
Education Faculty
English Language Education Program
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Reading Skills 1

Course CodeSemester Course Name LE/RC/LA Course Type Language of Instruction ECTS
ELT1001 1 Reading Skills 1 2/0/0 CC English 2
Course Goals
To strenghten students' reading skills. To encourage them to respond to ideas critically. To help them develop awareness of their progress as readers. To have them learn to analyse academic materials about their major , and work on academic vocabulary. To help them learn to guess vocabulary meaning from context.
Prerequisite(s) -
Corequisite(s) -
Special Requisite(s) -
Instructor(s) Assist. Prof. Dr. Özge Köksal
Course Assistant(s)
Schedule Thursday 09:15-10:45 Section 1/2 11:00-12:30 Basın Ekspres Campus A 401/ A 601
Office Hour(s) Monday&Friday: 10:00-17:00, Şirinevler Campus DFL Building 709
Teaching Methods and Techniques Face to face
Principle Sources  1)     Smith, C Lorraine (2014) Longman Academic Reading Skills 5: Reading Skills for College, Pearson Education, NY


Other Sources
Course Schedules
Week Contents Learning Methods
1. Week Explaining course objectives and contents and expectations from the students; giving information how the lessons will be taught and how the students will be assessed. material will be used; how students will study and get prepared for lessons Reading, retelling, and discussion
2. Week Chapter 1 + Reading Strategy (Warm- up, Guessing from the context) + Vocabulary (Synonyms, Antonyms,Collocations) Ch.1. Guessing the meanings of words from the context. Using dictionary entries to learn different meanings of words.
3. Week Chapter 2 + Reading Strategy (Warm- up, Guessing from the context) + Vocabulary (Synonyms, Antonyms,Collocations)
4. Week Chapter 3 + Reading Strategy (Warm- up, Guessing from the context) + Vocabulary (Synonyms, Antonyms,Collocations)
5. Week Chapter 4 + Reading Strategy (Warm- up, Guessing from the context) + Vocabulary (Synonyms, Antonyms,Collocations)
6. Week Chapter 5 Using textual clues to aid comprehension. Skimming. Contextualization. Create a chart to compare different ideas in a text.
7. Week Review
8. Week MID-TERM EXAM
9. Week Chapter 6 Using the context to understand the difficult concepts. Skimming.
10. Week Understand the details. Contextualization. Recognize and use collocations.
11. Week Chapter 7 Using the context to understand the difficult concepts. Skimming. Understand the details. Contextualization. Recognize and use collocations.
12. Week Chapter 8 Understand and practice different reading strategies. Analyze and understand graphs and statistics. Contextualization.
13. Week Chapter 9 Understand and practice different reading strategies. Analyze and understand graphs and statistics. Contextualization.
14. Week Chapter 10 Understand and practice different reading strategies.
15. Week Identify tone and point of view. Categorize words.
16. Week REVIEW
17. Week FINAL
Assessments
Evaluation tools Quantity Weight(%)
Midterm(s) 1 30
Homework / Term Projects / Presentations 1 10
Attendance 1 5
Final Exam 1 55


Program Outcomes
PO-1S/he can understand, adopt and apply social, cultural and social responsibilities.
PO-2S/he can take into account students' needs, language development levels, ages, intelligence types and learning styles when preparing a lesson plan.
PO-3S/he can choose the materials to be used in teaching process by evaluating usefulness, topicality and their effectiveness according to students’ age and language level.
PO-4S/he can create environments that will ensure the active participation of all students and increase their success.
PO-5S/he can organize multimedia learning environments inside and outside of the school, which develop all students' interactions with the teacher and each other for learning purposes.
PO-6S/he can organize educational environment suitable for all students to develop effective language learning strategies.
PO-7S/he can organize activities for all students to use English grammar and vocabulary correctly and effectively.
PO-8S/he can organize and apply activities to improve the listening skills of all students.
PO-9S/he can organize and apply activities that will improve the reading skills of all students.
PO-10S/he can organize and implement activities that will improve the speaking skills of all students.
PO-11S/he can organize and implement activities that will improve the writing skills of all students.
PO-12S/he can enable students to make self-assessment of their language learning processes.
PO-13S/he can use / develop assessment and evaluation tools and methods to be used in the teaching process in terms of usefulness, validity and reliability.
PO-14S/he can recognize Turkish National Education system, teaching profession and educational sciences in all aspects
PO-15S/he can use information and communication technologies by using at least one foreign language.
PO-16S/he can communicate well with colleagues and other school stakeholders.
PO-17S/he can follow the professional and ethical rules and take part in cooperative practices.
PO-18S/he can follow the national and international publications related to the field for their personal and professional development.
PO-19S/he can use Turkish in accordance with the rules and effectively.
PO-20S/he can select and apply measurement and evaluation methods in accordance with the gains.
PO-21S/he can apply contemporary teaching, strategy, methods and techniques.
PO-22S/he can use class dynamics to create appropriate learning experiences.
PO-23S/he can make use of sociology, psychology and philosophy in the planning and implementation of educational activities, being aware of the relationship of education with other disciplines.
PO-24S/he can evaluate the nature, source, limits, accuracy, reliability and validity of information.
PO-25S/he can understand the methods related to the production of scientific knowledge.
PO-26S/he can use language learning strategies effectively.
PO-27S/he can understand, interpret and evaluate the different written texts they will encounter in daily and professional life.
PO-28S/he can understand, interpret and evaluate the different verbal texts they will encounter in daily and professional life.
PO-29S/he can communicate orally in different environments that they may encounter in daily and professional life.
PO-30S/he can create different types of text by using the writing process effectively.
PO-31S/he can have the knowledge to understand and analyze the properties, structure and functioning of the human language and use them.
PO-32S/he can understand and analyze concepts and processes related to language learning.
PO-33S/he can understand and analyze concepts and processes related to language teaching.
PO-34S/he can gain professional self-confidence (finds himself/ herself sufficient as a teacher).
Learning Outcomes
LO-1Students should become rapid readers.
LO-2Students should be able to increase their vocabulary knowledge to a great extent.
LO-3Students should be able to learn to use contextual clues and get the habit of using them when reading.
LO-4Students should learn to guess the meaning of new words from context, and practice this strategy while reading.
LO-5Students should learn to read academic articles and paraphrase them.
LO-6Students should be able to read miscellaneous passages written in different fields, and answer the questions about them by employing reading comprehension strategies they learn in this course.
Course Assessment Matrix:
Program Outcomes - Learning Outcomes Matrix
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