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
Online Course28 January 202628 January, 04, 11, 18, 25 February, 04, 11, 18, 25 March 20265:00pm - 6:00pm30Booking Open12-01-2026 10:00
Online Course30 January 202630 January, 06, 13, 20, 27 February, 06, 13, 20, 27 March 20269:00am - 10:00am30Booking Open12-01-2026 10:00