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

Duration: 9 weeks 

Open to all international students| All disciplines welcome

Aims and objectives

The course aims to support you with reading 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
LocationStart DateAll DatesTimesPlaces AvailableBook
Jubilee Campus07 October 202507, 14, 21, 28 October, 04, 11, 18, 25 November, 02 December 20251:00pm - 2:00pm12
Online Course08 October 202508, 15, 22, 29 October, 05, 12, 19, 26 November, 03 December 20251:00pm - 2:00pm5