| Course title | |||||
| English Reading [English Reading] | |||||
| Course category | general education courses | Requirement | Credit | 1 | |
| Department | Year | 2～4 | Semester | 3rd | |
| Course type | 3rd | Course code | 020210 | ||
| Instructor(s) | |||||
| 岡野 一郎 [OKANO Ichiro] | |||||
| Facility affiliation | Faculty of Engineering | Office | Email address | ||
| Course description |
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Outline (English Reading): This course aims to develop second-year students’ reading skills, enabling them to read more advanced English texts. Students are given the opportunity to choose the genre of their reading materials from a variety of topics. Texts are expected to be more complex in terms of vocabulary, grammar, and style than those encountered in Integrated English. The English Reading course is divided into three groups, A-C. Students are requested to submit their preferred choice from among the following groups before registration. English Reading (A): Science and Technology In ER (A), students read articles relating to issues in science and technology. English Reading (B): Global News In ER (B), students read about topics relating to worldwide issues through a variety of news media. English Reading (C): Culture and Society In ER (C), students read articles focusing upon various aspects of culture and society. Evaluation includes each student’s TOEFL ITP test score, as converted to 20 percent of their final grade. All students must take the TOEFL ITP test on the second Saturday of December. This course is a required second-year course in the TUAT English curriculum. |
| Expected Learning |
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Objectives (English Reading): Students should attain level B2 in a variety of reading-related English skills as stated in the CEFR-J, a CEFR-based framework for ELT in Japan. To attain the objectives, during the course students will be expected to: 1. Become familiar with a variety of reading techniques such as skimming, scanning and summarizing. 2. Learn to read English texts both for comprehension and critical analysis. 3. Become independent learners, developing reading skills that can be used independently outside of class. |
| Course schedule |
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In this course, students will read several scientific news articles from Nature. Through this practice, students will learn how to comprehend the general meaning of an article, as well as develop skills needed to read each sentence and paragraph precisely and deeply. This class uses news articles as latest as possible, so the class schedule shown below is to be changed. Class 1: Introduction Class 2: The bitter battle over the world’s most popular insecticides (1) Class 3: The bitter battle over the world’s most popular insecticides (2) Class 4: The bitter battle over the world’s most popular insecticides (3) Class 5: The bitter battle over the world’s most popular insecticides (4) Class 6: Summary and test on the whole article (1) Class 7: How warp-speed evolution is transforming ecology (1) Class 8: How warp-speed evolution is transforming ecology (2) Class 9: How warp-speed evolution is transforming ecology (3) Class 10: How warp-speed evolution is transforming ecology (4) Class 11: Summary and test on the whole article (2) Class 12: Early birds may have been too hefty to sit on their eggs (1) Class 13: Early birds may have been too hefty to sit on their eggs (2) Class 14: Early birds may have been too hefty to sit on their eggs (3) Class 15: Summary and test on the whole article (3) |
| Prerequisites |
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This course is required for graduation. Students should make adequate preparations before each class spending the standard amount of time as specified by the university to achieve the credit as well as 30 hours of class attendance. Students must attend at least two-thirds of all classes to get credit. If a student does not fully attend the class (i.e. is present for less than the full 90 minutes) on two occasions, it should be counted as one absence. |
| Required Text(s) and Materials |
| Course materials are distributed in class. |
| References |
| None. |
| Assessment/Grading |
| Class participation (20 %), Quiz and tasks (15 %), three tests on the whole articles (45 %), TOEFL ITP Score (20 %) |
| Message from instructor(s) |
| Hope you enjoy reading about the latest and the most exciting scientific topics! |
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| Last update |
| 9/27/2019 10:03:13 AM |