This course aims to develop advanced skills in both reading and writing. It also aims to equip students with intensive and extensive reading habits which will then foster students’ reading and writing speeds. Critical thinking skills such as synthesizing information or analyzing a problem as well as reacting on the basis of evaluation are fostered. Such sub-skills of reading are employed by the students in their writings. Besides, students are expected to build up writing skills emphasizing the organization, coherence, and cohesion and such sub-skills as summarizing, outlining, and paraphrasing.

The use of spelling and punctuation conventions as well as non-alphabetic symbol use will be practised as well. Moreover, this course also aims to teach academic writing to students who need to present and defend their own points of view clearly and persuasively. Students will learn to recognize and emulate the many strategies, structures, vocabulary, and styles appropriate to formal writing, and they practise the process method by producing several increasingly refined drafts of an academic paper which deals with English Language Teaching. Students mainly work to master the norms for citing and attributing data from print and other sources, and to observe the methods of acknowledging the research findings of others. Relatively, students will be familiar with reviewing literature, parts of an academic paper, headings in APA style, writing a list of references, and presenting tables and figures in their papers.