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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 1. Having the ability to understand and discuss international relations discipline by using an interdisciplinary methodology to merge the knowledge coming from sociology, economics, psychology, political sciences well as diplomatic history.
  2. P02 2. Having an adequate knowledge of the history and the epochs of international system and being able to identify historical evolution of the contemporary world politics.
  3. P03 3. Recognizing local, regional and international actors functioning within the international system.
  4. P04 4. Understanding the legal framework of the current international system
  5. P05 5. Ability to identify the relations between the key actors of the international system – the states – from a theoretical as well as multi-dimensional scientific and academic methods.
  6. P06 6. Ability to analyse the roles and positions of the non-state actors – international organizations in particular – within the current world system.
  7. P07 7. Ability to recognize political, socio-economic and cultural structures embedded in international relations.
  8. P08 8. Exploring the roots of conflicts among the actors and produce solutions at local, regional and international levels with an analytical focus.
  9. P09 9. Being able to understand the politics and the functioning of political institutions in theory and practice.
  10. P10 10. Understanding the historical emergence of various political cultures and gaining ability to assess them comparatively.
  11. P11 11. Prepare international relations graduates; having a vast knowledge, academic formation and skills to work in public offices, civil society organizations, international institutions and companies at local and global levels.
  12. P12 12. To have moral and ethical understanding in the field of work.

Po-Lo Matrix

LO P01 P02 P03 P04 P05 P06 P07 P08 P09 P10 P11 P12 Average
L01 - - - - - - - - - - - - -
L02 - - - - - - - - - - - - -
L03 - - - - - - - - - - - - -
L04 - - - - - - - - - - - - -
L05 - - - - - - - - - - - - -
L06 - - - - - - - - - - - - -