Course Intermediate Reading And Writing Skills

Course Description

This B1-level course is a continuation of the Essential Reading and Writing Skills course. It focuses on expository and analytical essay writing while integrating active reading strategies. Students will develop their skills in critical reading and essay writing by engaging with nonfiction texts, decoding rhetorical structures, and mastering principles of unity and coherence in writing. The course emphasizes inventing ideas, essay structures, and the writing process, supported by analytical reading sessions, peer reviews, integration of digital technology and writing workshops. Key writing tasks include exemplification, comparison-contrast, and cause-effect essays.

Program Objectives (PO)

Evaluating their own and others‘ writing for clarity, coherence, and adherence to the conventions of academic English, making revisions to improve the overall quality and effectiveness of the text.
Applying advanced concepts of applied linguistics to design and formulate strategies for improving reading comprehension and writing skills, particularly in academic contexts.

Analyzing complex texts to identify central themes, arguments, and rhetorical strategies, and synthesizing this information to produce well-structured written responses.
Integrate diverse digital technologies to enhance students’ reading comprehension and academic writing performance across a range of academic texts and tasks.

Aktifitas Pembelajaran

Pertemuan 1

Students are able to apply previewing and predicting strategies by identifying titles, headings, visuals, and key terms to predict the topic, purpose, and organization an essay.

Date 6 Februari 2026

Pertemuan 2
Students are able to explain the concept of main ideas and supporting details and distinguish between them in explanatory essays.
Date 13 Februari 2026

Pertemuan 3

Students are able to identify the author's purpose in a given text by skimming for key information and accurately identifying nouns and verbs to comprehend the main idea.

Date 20 Februari 2026

Pertemuan 4
Students are able to identify the text organization and purpose through skimming techniques.
Date 27 Februari 2026

Pertemuan 5

Students are able to identify the key information presented in charts, graphs, and tables using basic synonyms of academic words related to texts provided.

Date 6 Maret 2026

Pertemuan 6

Students are able to explain visual data presented in charts, graphs, and tables using appropriate cause and effect language and contextual synonyms.

Date 13 Maret 2026

Pertemuan 7

Students are able to evaluate their comprehension and practice of multiple reading strategies to comprehend academic texts effectively.

Date 20 Maret 2026

Pertemuan 8
Students are able to submit their reading and writing project following the decided instructions and requirements
Date 27 Maret 2026

Pertemuan 9

Students are able to summarize key information from non-text elements (images, captions, diagrams) in written texts and use word forms and synonyms of academic vocabulary accurately to comprehend a written text.

Date 3 April 2026

Pertemuan 10

Students are able to implement outlining, drafting, and editing processes properly with specific attention to adverb clause to write a comparison essay.

Date 10 April 2026

Pertemuan 11

Students are able to infer implicit meaning, assumptions, and conclusion based on explicit information, contextual clues (including collocations) provided in the texts.

Date 17 April 2026

Pertemuan 12
Students are able to infer author’s stance, implications, and consequences based on information provided in academic texts.
Date 24 April 2026

Pertemuan 13

Students are able to identify comparison-and-contrast text structures in academic readings by using signal words and phrases (e.g., similarly, in contrast, whereas).