ALACS - Effective Academic Reading
Duration 9 days
Team Centre For English Language Education

Duration: 9 weeks 

Aims and objectives

The aim of the course is to help you read more efficiently and quickly by:

  • choosing what is important for you to read
  • practising strategies that will help to save time
  • practising techniques for speed reading
  • extracting relevant information from texts
  • taking a critical approach to reading

Syllabus

Week 1 What is active reading?
Week 2 Types of reading
Week 3 Faster reading
Week 4 Reading clues: paragraphs
Week 5 Reading clues: organisational patterns
Week 6 Reading clues: vocabulary
Week 7 Selecting what to read
Week 8 Critical reading 1
Week 9 Critical reading 2
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