سنة ثالثة

Module: Reading & Writing Workshop 1  ( L3)

Teaching Unit: Methodology

Credits: 04

Coefficient: 02

Assessment:        100% CC          

Teaching Time:  1h 30  mns  TD Session per week

Course Description:

       The course is the practical continuity of the previous  L1 and L2 courses. The new course deals with varied written textx developed in different patterns:   expository writing and its six  different patterns of development; Illustration, classification, cause and effect, comparison and contrast, process writing and definition.

      Another field of writing that cannot be neglected is letters, CVs and reports, genres widely encountered in everyday life. The aspects of formal writing are stressed in addition to detailing and analyzing the characteristics of business emails.

      The course is two-fold developing both reading as a receptive skill that consist in decoding written text on one hand, and on the other hand writing as a productive literacy skill that aims at encoding messages, ideas and thoughts for a reading audience.

Course Objectives:

1-       To develop learner's creative writing;

2-       Learners should be able to write different types of essays;

3-       To develop learners writing strategies and acquaint them with knowledge about different patterns of expository writing,

4-       Raising learners awareness of the organisation of written texts especially multi-pattern development.

5-       To introduce learners to writing formal letters, emails; CVs and Reports (articles)

6-       To develop learners' critical thinking by  analyzing reading passages and relating text contents to their production cultural context;

7-       To enable learners to distinguish and use formal and informal register according to the communicative situation.

Teaching Activities:

1-    Reading different types  and genres of texts;

2-    Answering direct and indirect questions;

3-    Expressing opinions orally and in written in response to text content;

4-    Analyzing text format and style;

5-    Working with peers, in pair and in groups, to produce creative texts;

6-    Writing essays on selected topics or in response to read material …etc;

7-    Giving and responding to feedback,

 Basic Material: (main resources used by teacher: books, handouts, websites, etc.)

1-      Successful  Writing  Proficiency. Virginia Evans. Express Publishing

2-      Exploring Writing- Sentences and Pargaraphs. John LANGAN. McGRAW HILL.

3-      Academic Writing Course. R.P.Jordan

4-      Introduction to Academic Writing . Alice Oshima

5-      Strategies for Successful Writing . James A.Reinking and Robert Von Der Osten

Further Readings:  

1-      Reading and Writing Targets. Virginia Evans& Jenny Dooley.

2-      Express yourself. Edith Wagner. Leaning Express

3-      Academic Writing. Dorothy E. Zemach & Lisa A. Rumisek. MACMIllAN

4-      Stepping Stones – a guided approach to writing sentences and paragraphs. Chris Juzwiak

5-      The Writer's Workplace with Readings. Sandra Scarry  and John Scarry

Types of Activities

1-    Text reading and analysis/ Answer QQ related to theme development text structure and organisation

2-    Vocabulary study and word choice and transitional signals;

3-    Writing tasks including: completing the introduction, the conclusion and developmental paragraphs ...etc; rewriting/ reformulating sentences/ filling in the gaps/...etc

4-    Matching elements / parts of a text; substitution of transitional signals...etc

5-    Expressing ideas differently;

6-    Transferring a text to an outline and vice versa.

7-    Transferring CVs to letters of application and vice versa

8-    Writing essays in class or at home/ individually, in pairs or collectively

9-    Giving and receiving peer feedback and discussing errors

10-               Any activity that the teachers finds effective to the situation.