Reading 3

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This course aims at training students to improve reading speed, comprehension and efficiency. Students are trained by intensive reading and analysis of texts f varying complexity in different genres - e.g. fiction, essay, biography, poetry - and types, e.g. description, narration, exposition. Its major objective is comprehension of texts stimulated through a variety of questions and exercises and through reading strategies directed at understanding the structure and organization of the reading selections. An attempt is made at trying to unravel and to interpret the author’s point of view through the mechanics of the text as a whole and through the uses of vocabulary ino context. The selected texts give the students additional dimensions in appreciating varieties across, and similarities between, societies and cultures. They represent a very interesting prelude to the comparative culture.