Deskripsi Mata Kuliah
This course is designed to give students the opportunity to explore intermediate level authentic academic sources as well popular publications and decode rhetorical structures such as causation, comparison and contrast, definition, classification, and favored vs. unfavored opinions. Vocabulary practices that target vocabulary from the Academic Word List (AWL) level 4-7, technical and cultural terms related to the topic discussed provide opportunities for students to interact with academic texts and helping them acquire vital academic vocabulary. Topics covered in this course include physiology, psychology, film studies, neuroscience, anthropology, robotics and many more. All teaching-learning activities are conducted through lecturing, discussion, writing and question-answer.
CPMK
- To apply skimming, scanning, outlining as pre-reading strategy
- To identify main ideas & cause/effect of the reading passage
- To apply annotating & highlighting as reading strategy
- To find the perpetrator & point of view of reading passage
- To categorize and interpret charts from reading passage
- To describe trends and summarize information from reading passage
- To evaluate generalizations and understand analogies in reading passage
- To analyze and develop criteria from the reading
- To analyze advantages and disadvantages, ethics and values in reading passage
- To identify causes in the reading passage
- To synthesize information in the reading passage