Information Package / Course Catalogue
Reading Skills I
Course Code: ENT109
Course Type: Required
Couse Group: First Cycle (Bachelor's Degree)
Education Language: English
Work Placement: N/A
Theory: 2
Prt.: 0
Credit: 2
Lab: 0
ECTS: 2
Objectives of the Course

This course aims to develop first-year English Language Teaching students’ reading skills through critical engagement with different text types and genres. Students will read, analyze, discuss, and respond to a variety of texts, including narratives, recounts, opinion texts, news reports, academic texts, biographies, advertisements, digital texts, and literary extracts. The course focuses not only on comprehension but also on critical reading, genre awareness, interpretation, evaluation of ideas, and active participation in classroom tasks.

Course Content

The course focuses not only on comprehension but also on critical reading, genre awareness, interpretation, evaluation of ideas, and active participation in classroom tasks.

Name of Lecturer(s)
Learning Outcomes
1.analyze the generic structure of different text types;
2.relate reading texts to social, cultural, educational, and personal contexts.
3.use reading strategies such as skimming, scanning, inferencing, predicting, annotating, summarizing, and questioning;
4.evaluate the reliability and relevance of information in written and digital texts; respond to reading texts through discussion, short written reflections, and oral presentations;
5.identify bias, stance, tone, assumptions, and persuasive strategies in texts;
6.explain how vocabulary, grammar, organization, and discourse markers contribute to meaning;
Recommended or Required Reading
1.Birsk, M. E. (2014). Egnagign students in academic literacies.
2.Various free resources available online
Weekly Detailed Course Contents
Week 1 - Theoretical
Introduction to Reading Skills: What is reading? Reading as meaning-making; reading strategies
Week 2 - Theoretical
Reading Strategies: Skimming, scanning, predicting, inferencing, annotating
Week 3 - Practice
In-class acitivy on reading strategies
Week 4 - Theoretical
Genre Awareness in Reading: Purpose, audience, context, structure, language
Week 5 - Theoretical
Comparative Genre Reading: Comparing texts across genres; how genre changes meaning
Week 6 - Practice
In-class acitivy on Karşılaştırmalı Tür Okumasi
Week 7 - Theoretical
Opinion Texts and Columns: Claim, reasons, evidence, stance, tone
Week 8 - Practice
In-class acitivy on Opinion Texts and Columns
Week 9 - Theoretical
Academic Texts for Beginners: Thesis, topic sentences, supporting evidence, citation awareness
Week 10 - Theoretical
Educational Texts: Texts about language learning, teaching, and schooling
Week 11 - Practice
In-class acitivy on reading academic texts on education
Week 12 - Theoretical
Digital Texts and Social Media: Online reading, reliability, misinformation, multimodality
Week 13 - Theoretical
Advertisements and Persuasive Texts: Visual/verbal persuasion, audience positioning, assumptions
Week 14 - Practice
in class activity on digital commercials
Assessment Methods and Criteria
Type of AssessmentCountPercent
Attending Lectures1%10
Practice5%50
Presentation1%10
Project1%30
Workload Calculation
ActivitiesCountPreparationTimeTotal Work Load (hours)
Lecture - Theory90218
Lecture - Practice50525
Project1314
Presentation 1224
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours)51
Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes
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Adnan Menderes University - Information Package / Course Catalogue
2026