Syllabus for Four Year B. A Honors Course of English Subject

Syllabus for Four Year B. A Honors Course English Reading Skills

National University Subject: English

Syllabus for Four Year B. A Honors Course Effective from the

(Session: 2009- TO be continued)

Detailed Syllabus First Year

Course Title: English Reading Skills

Course Code: 1152,   Marks 100, Credit-4

The course seeks to develop students’ reading skills and covers the following sub-skills;

a). Guessing word meanings by using knowledge of word form (class), word function, word structure and formation and most importantly, contextual clues.

b) Understanding ornamental expressions

c) Tackling sentence meaning,

 d) Surveying text organization,

e) Reading for specific information (skimming),

f) Reading for general comprehension/gist (scanning),

g) Summarizing,

h) Predicting,

i) Interpreting.

j) Recognizing, author’s position, tone, and attitude The reading texts will be chosen from different types of writing like descriptive, narrative, expository, argumentative, journalistic, and academic texts e.g. History, philosophy, etc.

Williams, E. 1984. Reading in the Language Classroom. Mcmillan.

Wallace. 1992. Reading. OUP

Barr. P. Clegg, J. and Wallace, C. 1981. Advanced Reading Skills. Longman

Walter, Catherine. 1982. Authentic Reading. CUP

Greenwood, J. 1988. Class Readers. OUP