Activee reading course assists students to read a large number of materials from a variety of topics on a wide range of genres primarily for pleasure to enrich understanding that is well within their linguistic and literary competence in and out of the classroom. The materials of this course include (1) how to interpret the theme of the text based on the main idea, supporting details, sequence, and cause and effect relationships, (2) how to comprehend the use of figurative language, (3) how to judge the author’s point of view and language mood, and (4) how to draw the conclusions and predict the outcomes of the text, including relating the information in the text into broader context. The activeities in this course are conducted through group discussions, presentations, and classroom assignment, e.g. written summary, report, and analysis of the text.
This course aims to develop student’s communicative competence as well as students reading abilities in order to increase student’s confidence in learning English which work with pedagogical strategy: providing a large volume of comprehensible to enhance students’ communicative competence. Goals will be achieved: (1) to create access for learners to sufficient input of the target language, (2) to enhance reading skills(fluency) by encouraging students to read a large number of books on various topics as well as to improve their overall language competence, (3) to develop oral communicative competence by providing students with collaborative activeities, (4) to build a positive toward learning English by using materials within the students’ language abilities, (5) to enhance student’s motivation and love for learning and to build life-long learning habit.
