on Apr 2nd, 2008English Course
Reading & Conversation Courses
We run a general English Reading and an English Conversation course every semester which is designed for any student who has to take their required English course at Hansei University. We run four general English Reading courses (Level 1, Level 2, World Literature, and Current Issues) every semester which is designed for any student who has to take their required English course at Hansei University. The organization of the reading program represents the nexus of General reading instruction and extensive reading instruction.
The reading teachers are expected to spend 50% of their instruction time on general reading and the remaining 50% of time on extensive reading. The objective is to provide a well-balanced reading program.
The Reading course focuses on key language (grammar, vocabulary and pronunciation) and skills (skimming, scanning, previewing, schema activation, predicting, inferring, finding the main idea, and finding details) development. The course is also suitable for anyone who needs to develop to become a strategic reader and for those who wants to improve their overall English language level.
Extensive reading is defined as reading of massive amounts of narrative and expository texts (15-30 pages a day) appropriate to the level of student’s language proficiency. Narrative texts are of fictional nature and expository texts are those that inform and educate the reader. Extensive reading of both expository and narrative materials provides readers with opportunities to exercise their reading skills and allows for building fluency, automaticity, and confidence in reading.
The Reading Course of Hansei University is designed to capitalize on students’ intensive and extensive reading experiences in such a way that it promotes and facilitates vocabulary acquisition through both direct and indirect instruction, and promotes reading rate building.
Finally, the reading Course is pioneering in incorporating phonological instruction and thus
recognizes the importance of building phonological awareness in reading.
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