iTEL
This course aims to equip students with the advanced skills needed for academic reading. A variety of texts from a range of disciplines will be used as materials in teaching this course. Students will be taught to use strategies that will be useful to them when reading academic texts related to their main course of study. Some of the reading skills are predicting outcomes, making inferences, and interpreting the text. This course also aims to teach students listening comprehension of both formal and informal situations. Listening comprehension will be advanced using a more principled manner appropriate to the MUET format. Skills to be taught are recalling information, paraphrasing, predicting outcomes, distinguishing facts from opinions, summarizing, and drawing conclusions.
This course aims to familiarize students with reading and writing skills and to introduce them to the types of genres in writing. They will apply the skills of skimming and scanning in reading passages, learn how to infer and paraphrase information from any given passages and learn to identify and differentiate the main ideas and supporting details of a passage. In addition, students will be taught how to develop a clear presentation of ideas in an essay. Among the aspects of writing that they will learn are the writing process, the basic organization of a typical five-paragraph essay, and important elements in an essay such as thesis statement, topic sentences and supporting ideas which they will utilize when they learn the different types of genres in writing.