基础英语教学大纲基础英语教学大纲.doc

Basic English Reading I: Course Description Syllabus Course title: Basic English Reading I Instructor : Jiang Chunlan Objectives: 1. The purpose of the course is to help students’ to improve their integrated skills on learning English. This course is to give freshman a thorough understanding of the importance and ways of mastering the 5 English Skills. Purposes for Basic English: - listening - speaking - reading - writing - translating Students will be expected to keep a vocabulary log. They will also be expected to make full use of English-English dictionaries or bilingual dictionaries. 2. Goal a) General To begin to understand and use correctly the basic elements of reading in English including: - Work towards fluency in learning English by enhancing skills, or linguistic processing abilities e.g. word recognition, syntactic processing - Students to move from bottom-up process of reading to an incorporation of both bottom-up and to-down processing. Interactive models will also be used for word recognition. - Students to learn vocabulary and grammar related to the texts - Students to read actively - Students to participate in pre-reading and post-reading activities - Review of various grammatical forms, including nouns – countable and non countable, tenses and others as needed b) Language Strategies To learn and start to use the following language strategies: - Previewing - Use of English-English dictionaries or bilingual dictionaries - Scan to find information - Understand implied ideas in readings - Understand the writing style - Skimming to understand the main facts - Use of background knowledge to help you understand a reading - Finding topic sentences of paragraphs to understand the main idea - Learn paraphrasing c) Academic Power Strategies To learn and start to use the following academic power strategies: - Make a study plan - Goal setting - Practice what you have learnt to connect reading with life - Study in groups / pairs - Learn how to write a book re