Topic outline

  • General

  • Course details

                     University of Abou Bekr Belkaid Tlemcen 

              Faculty of letters and languages 

         Department of English 




    Module: Reading Comprehension                                        

    Level: L2

    Semester: 2

    Coefficient: 1



    How to improve reading comprehension? Best practices

    • Contact details 

      1. Dr. Imane Berrouba Tani 

      Email: imaneberroubatani@gmail.com 


      2. Miss. Zineb BENAYAD

      Email: zineb.ben98@hotmail.com

    • Overview 

      In addition to listening skill, reading is deemed a crucial receptive skill that needs to be mastered to attain proficiency in the productive skills. This course intends to develop English learners' reading skills when dealing with a variety of texts. These texts include different topics and themes that can be encountered both in academic and general contexts. Given the onerous nature of reading comprehension, learners will be trained to cope successfully with it through various types of activities and tasks that are meant to enable the improvement of comprehension of several texts. 


      Objectives 

      Relying on the IELTS approach, the course teaches a wide range of reading skills including the students’ ability to follow an argument, recognize a writer’s opinion, attitude or purpose. It looks at how well a student is able to read and understand main ideas, details and implied meanings. Texts are taken from current books, journals, magazines and newspapers. As for the tasks or questions, they range from multiple choice to identifying information or a writer’s view, matching headings, features and sentence endings, as well as summary, table and flow-chart completions.


      Pre-requisite

      In order for the students to be able to deal successfully with the texts, a good vocabulary level is required. Prior to the start of the lesson, a preparation task consisting of a vocabulary task is to be performed by the students.Through this task, they will be given a list of words, which are presumably unknown and difficult words chosen from the target text, and will attempt to guess their meaning. Then, the task will be corrected during the online meeting. 

      Students will then be asked to read the text silently in 15 minutes. The target text will be discussed with the teacher briefly in 10 minutes, after which students will begin dealing with the activities. 


  • Lecture One

    The lesson will begin with the preparation task, through which students will become familiar with the difficult words in the text to attain good comprehension. Students will then be asked to read the text silently for 15 minutes. Following the aloud reading, students will be required to engage in a discussion about the topic of the text, the Science of sleep. Then, they do the first True/False/ Not Given activity, followed by a multiple-choice activity, and lastly a fill-in the gap task. 

  • Lecture Two

    The lesson will begin with the preparation task, through which students will become familiar with the difficult words in the text to attain good comprehension. Students will then be asked to read the text silently for 20 minutes. Following the aloud reading, students will be required to engage in a discussion about the topic of the text, the real risks of artificial intelligence. Then, they do the first True/False/ Not Given activity, followed by a multiple-choice activity, and lastly a fill-in the gap task. 

  • Lecture Three

    The lesson will start by dealing with the difficult words in the preparation task. Then the students will read the text silently for 15 minutes prior to reading it aloud. Students will be asked some general questions about the topic of the text which is Mindfulness, after which they will do the first activity, which is a TRUE/False activity. The second activity is a reflection task, wherein students will be given statements and scenarios to consolidate their comprehension of what being mindful is versus what not being mindful is.

    In the last task which is a production task, students will be required to provide their own definition of Mindfulness and analyze their own daily situations wherein they are usually unmindful to find solutions to overcome this problem. 


  • Lecture Four

    This lesson will begin by the preparation task wherein students will have the opportunity to become familiar with the difficult words in the text to be able to attain general comprehension while reading. Students will then be asked to read the text silently for 15 minutes to be able to read it aloud afterwards. Following the aloud reading students will be required to answer some general comprehension questions about the topic of the text which is mental health. Then, they will do the first True/False activity, followed by a fill-in the gap activity and lastly a reflection task, wherein they will have to define concepts and suggest how we can foster good mental health in the educational settings for both teachers and students.  

  • Lecture Five

    This lesson will begin with a preparation task to familiarize students with difficult terms, aiding their understanding of the text which talks about the importance of law. They will then read the text silently for 15 minutes before embarking on reading it aloud. Next, they will complete a true/false and correction of false statements exercise to test their comprehension, followed by identifying the writer's central points. Students will then match headings to paragraphs to help them identify key points and grasp each paragraph's main idea. The lesson will conclude with an open discussion where students share their thoughts on the topic in relation to Algerian society, exchanging ideas and debating respectfully.

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