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READING AND WRITING SKILLS-I

Course
ENGL141 - READING AND WRITING SKILLS-I
Department
School of Foreign Languages
Course Type
Online Course
Status
Required
Language
English
Credit
3
ECTS
4
T+P+L
2 + 2 + 0
Course Coordinator(s)
Sr. Instr. Feryal VARANOĞULLARI
Prerequisite
Keywords

Course Description

This course aims to develop students' listening, speaking, reading - writing and study skills. The course provides students with the opportunity to develop their communication skills through controlled activities and to equip students with the basic study skills necessary to follow the curriculum of English. This course also provides students with the opportunity to process the newly acquired knowledge and to develop their ability to ask questions about how to apply the new knowledge to new situations and ask them to think critically. In addition, this course will enable students to learn about the different strategies required to review the various reading pieces, such as finding the main idea and distinguishing the details from the main idea.

READING AND WRITING SKILLS-I

Evaluation Tools (Active Term)

Item Type Weight (%)
Mid-term Examination Midterm 30
Final Examination Final 40
Assignments Assignment 30
Total 100

Course outcomes

  1. 01 1. be able to apply necessary reading strategies which are skimming and scanning, and paraphrase the academic reading texts.
  2. 02 2. be able to interpret the given text and classify the given statements.
  3. 03 3. be able to summarize the given text.
  4. 04 4. be able to differenciate the main ideas of the reading texts from the supporting details.
  5. 05 5. be able to identify the irrelevant sentences that destroy the unity of the paragraph.
  6. 06 6. be able to process the required presentation skills.

Course Syllabus

Week Topic
Week 1 Introduction to the course + Registration to the e-book and online assignments
Week 2 Registration to the Assignment+Online Weekly Lesson 1: NorthStar4 (NS4): Unit 1/ 1 and 2/ FOCUS ON READING - READING ONE (VOCABULARY) + READING ONE (MAIN IDEAS&MAKE INFERENCES) + READING ONE ( NOTE-TAKING)
Week 3 Registration to the Assignment+Online Weekly Lesson 2: NS4 : Unit 1 / FOCUS ON READING - READING TWO (TAKE NOTES&READING COMPREHENSION&QUOTATIONS)
Week 4 Registration to the Assignment+Assignment 1 (Unit 1) (7.5%);Online Weekly Lesson 3: NS4 : Unit 1 / 3 FOCUS ON WRITING A & EXTRA MATERIAL - (VOCABULARY&CHOOSING A TOPIC SENTENCE and A CONTROLLING IDEA) + NS4 1 / 3 FOCUS ON WRITING (Summary Writing&Sentence Fragments)
Week 5 Assignment 1 (Unit 1) (7.5%)+Online Weekly Lesson 4: NS4 : Unit 2 / 1 and 2 FOCUS ON READING - READING ONE (VOCABULARY- Synonyms & Antonyms & Take Notes) & (MAKE INFERENCES)
Week 6 Assignment 2 (Unit 2) (7.5%)+Online Weekly Lesson 5: NS4 : Unit 2 / 2 FOCUS ON READING - READING TWO (TAKING NOTES & COMPREHENSION + Answering True / False / Not Mentioned Qs- Extra mat.)
Week 7 Assignment 2 (Unit 2) (7.5%)+Online Weekly Lesson 6: NS4 : Unit 2 / 3 FOCUS ON WRITING - (VOCABULARY - REVIEW SYNONYMS & ANTONYMS) + WRITING A PARAGRAPH
Week 8 MIDTERM EXAMINATIONS (09-20 November, 2026)
Week 9 MIDTERM EXAMINATIONS (09-20 November, 2026)
Week 10 Assignment 3 (Unit 3) (7.5%)+Online Weekly Lesson 7: NS4 : Unit 3 / 1 and 2/ FOCUS ON READING - READING ONE (Vocabulary & Take Notes & Main Idea)
Week 11 Assignment 3 (Unit 3) (7.5%)+Online Weekly Lesson 8: NS4 : NS4 : Unit 3 / 1 / FOCUS ON READING - READING TWO (Revising True / False / Not Mentioned Qs - Extra mat.) + Assignment 1 (Unit1)
Week 12 Assignment 4 (Unit4) (7.5%)+Online Weekly Lesson 10: NS4 : Unit 3 / 3 FOCUS ON WRITING (VOCABULARY & WRITING AN OPINION ESSAY)
Week 13 Assignment 4 (Unit4) (7.5%)+Online Weekly Lesson 11: Extra Mat. : WRITING AN OPINION ESSAY + NS4 : Unit 4 READING ONE (VOCABULARY) + READING TWO (VOCABULARY & COMPREHENSION) - Assignment 2 (Unit 2)
Week 14 Online Weekly Lesson 12: NS4 : Unit 4 / REVISING SUMMARY WRITING + PARAPHRASING
Week 15 NS4 : Unit 4 / FOCUS ON READING - READING ONE and FINAL EXAMINATIONS (04-15 January, 2027)

Reference Books & Course Materials

  1. 01 English, A. K & English, L.M. (2020). NorthStar 4 (5th Ed.) e-book, Pearson.
  2. 02 ENGL141/ENGL143/ENGL145 Course Page on CIU Moodle (http//ciu.edu.tr)
  3. 03 Pearson English Portal (login.pearson.com) for Online Assignments

Learning Outcomes

  1. L01 1. be able to apply necessary reading strategies which are skimming and scanning, and paraphrase the academic reading texts.
  2. L02 2. be able to interpret the given text and classify the given statements.
  3. L03 3. be able to summarize the given text.
  4. L04 4. be able to differenciate the main ideas of the reading texts from the supporting details.
  5. L05 5. be able to identify the irrelevant sentences that destroy the unity of the paragraph.
  6. L06 6. be able to process the required presentation skills.

Program Outcomes

  1. P01 The student chooses the design principles and can match the application
  2. P02 Students will be able to define national and international values in art and design
  3. P03 Students will be able to define abstract and concrete design concepts and express them in composition
  4. P04 The student can adjust the time correctly to complete his / her graphic application
  5. P05 The student matches the relationship between image and meaning
  6. P06 Students can express what they see by drawing
  7. P07 Identifies the traces, aligns, and calculates the hierarchy of typographic elements
  8. P08 Defines and lists art and design materials
  9. P09 Expresses an idea, concept or phenomenon visually in a creative way
  10. P10 Solves the design problems encountered in the process
  11. P11 Symbolizes concepts, situations, and objects in the visual context
  12. P12 Develops design projects by recalling basic graphic design principles
  13. P13 Applies technology effectively in the design process
  14. P14 Can think critically and question theoretical gains in the context
  15. P15 Relate the past, present, and future of design
  16. P16 Can perform original works related to the field and evaluate the results
  17. P17 Designs and produces different visual areas such as multimedia, advertising graphics, animation, new media, printmaking, and photography
  18. P18 Improves communication skills for teamwork
  19. P19 Can effectively discuss, criticize and form theory about the field
  20. P20 Student can organize paragraphs, single-column, multi-column and modular grids in book and magazine designs
  21. P21 Can plan collaborations with colleagues in interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary environments
  22. P22 Can associate written texts with visual images
  23. P23 Can observe and compare in the context of art criticism methods
  24. P24 Can apply legal regulations and procedures in the field
  25. P25 Be able to associate written texts with visual images

Po-Lo Matrix

LO P01 P02 P03 P04 P05 P06 P07 P08 P09 P10 P11 P12 P13 P14 P15 P16 P17 P18 P19 P20 P21 P22 P23 P24 P25 Average
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L02 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
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L04 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
L05 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
L06 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -