Extensive Reading

Lecturer : Erwin Hari Kurniawan

Contact hours per week :2
Duration of the semester : 16 weeks

Objectives
• enable students to achieve fluency in the areas of vocabulary recognition and reading
comprehension skills;
• equip students with effective extensive reading strategies;
• make reading a positive, encouraging experience for all students;
• develop the culture of reading and critical thinking skills;
• encourage students to take charge of their own reading development;
• produce independent readers who value reading as a life-long pursuit. 

Course Content
Self-selection and extensive reading of texts, using various strategies for comprehension
and vocabulary recognition; maintaining a log with details of reading accomplished each
week; summarizing weekly reading; establishing personally relevant reading goals.
Interacting with a variety of texts for different purposes; using critical thinking skills;
deducing meaning from context; understanding author’s purpose; using inference;
guessing and predicting content; interpreting a variety of question types. Students should
read 35 pages per week.

Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course the students will be able to
• use effectively extensive reading strategies;
• develop an ever-expanding fund of recognized words and their meanings;
• read not just for information or to perform a task, but also for pleasure;
• establish personally relevant reading goals.

Delivery
• Online-class lectures and Group discussions 
Learning Materials
 Handouts, provided by the lecturer
 College library: books, magazines, newspapers and/or other reading materials
selected by students
 Websites, recommended by the lecturer.

Course Requirements
Each student must fulfil the following requirements of the Extensive Reading Skills course.
 Self-study (average 6 hours per week) includes preparation for extensive reading
classes. For extensive reading purposes students read chosen books, magazines or
journals on preferred topics. Students should read about 35 pages per week.
 Every student must keep a log which shows how much the student read every week
and must demonstrate that s/he understood what s/he read. The log must be kept in the
prescribed format.
 Students must be prepared to discuss what they have read with the tutor. These
meetings will take place every second week. The class will be divided into two groups
of approximately 10 students each, and each group will meet the tutor on alternate
weeks for a face-to-face discussion.
 Students must show the teacher the book/article they are currently reading. If it is
online, they need to print and show the hard copy.
 Attend all classes regularly. Students should be mindful that if they are not in class,
for any reason, they miss important schoolwork and are not able to participate in their
class's ongoing educational activities. This may be reflected in students' grades. If a
student misses more than three classes without a clear reason she/he will not be
allowed to continue the course without a special permission from the Dean.
 Students are not allowed to walk or chat loudly with each other during the lesson
without a tutor’s permission. If a student ignores the tutor’s remarks, uses offensive
words or offensive body language, leaves the classroom early and without the
teacher’s permission, is late for classes or insults other students and the teacher,
behaves in an arrogant manner or in any other inappropriate way, the student will be
severely punished including expulsion from the College. Expulsion implies that the
student should not consider the College for further education.
 The course outline is the main document of the course.
 Any questions or suggestions related to the above can be answered or discussed
personally by your instructor during the tutorial, after the tutorial or by email. Each
student who approaches the instructor by email must write his/her student number,
name and the class number on the subject line. Anonymous emails will be considered
as spam and will not be replied.

Assessment
The course will be assessed for a total of 100 marks based on continuous assessment. The
table below outlines the grading system for extensive reading. Approximately 150 - 200
words in Times New Roman, font size 12 will be considered as one page. Adjustments
will need to be made for books/magazines/journals in larger or smaller font sizes. Students
are required to read 35 pages per week (5 pages per day).

No Meeting Material Title of text Group Member

Introduction to the course

1.
1
and Learning contract

2. 2 Reading Strategies

Using Reference words

3. 3

Word Study: Stems and

4.
4
Affixation

Word Study: Context

5.
5
Clues

Sentence Study:
6.
6
Comprehension

Paragraph analysis:
7.
7 Reading for full
understanding

Mid Test
8. 8

Patterns of Organization 1
9. 9
 : Listing & Time Order

Patterns of Organization 2
10.
10 : Comparison- Contrast &
Cause - Effect

Strategies for taking note

11. 11

12. 12 Making inferences &

Drawing conclusions
13. 13 Essay Reading:
Summarizing
14. Essay Reading:
14
Summarizing

15. Reviewing previous

15
materials

16. 16. FINAL TEST