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Course Description:: Practical English Reading and Writing Fall 2019

This course aims to help students improve their English reading and writing skills through intensive practice. Students will read one selected book and newspaper articles, and complete three writing assignments on different topics. Class activities take a learner-centered approach involving group discussions. Students will be evaluated based on attendance, participation, writing assignments, and their work reading and summarizing chapters from the selected course book. Cellphone use is only permitted for classwork, and inappropriate use may reduce the final grade.

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Course Description:: Practical English Reading and Writing Fall 2019

This course aims to help students improve their English reading and writing skills through intensive practice. Students will read one selected book and newspaper articles, and complete three writing assignments on different topics. Class activities take a learner-centered approach involving group discussions. Students will be evaluated based on attendance, participation, writing assignments, and their work reading and summarizing chapters from the selected course book. Cellphone use is only permitted for classwork, and inappropriate use may reduce the final grade.

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Practical English Reading and Writing

Fall 2019

Instructor: 여정은 (Year, JungEun) T/TH: 9:00 ~ 10:15


Room: 사대신관 321호 Office hours: by appointment
E-mail: jeyear@gmail.com/jeyear@korea.ac.kr

Course Description:

This course, with the principle of the “read a lot and write a lot”, is designed to help students build and
enhance their reading and writing skills for academic purposes. While the primary goal of the course is to
create an environment in which students, through intensive practice, are encouraged to read critically and
write logically, another important goal is to help them cultivate critical thinking and then incorporate it in
their learning. Throughout the semester, students will read a book and newspaper articles and write
various forms of writing.

Class activities and approach to learning:

It takes a learner-centered approach where individual students are actively involved in building knowledge
construction and creating rich learning opportunities as they participate in a number of group discussion
activities. For the development of their language abilities, students are expected to actively participate in
class activities: pair or group work, and class discussions. Students must use only English in class.

Required Textbook

Book reading: To promote an extensive and in-depth reading and class discussion, students will read one
of the books below. In the first and second weeks of the semester, students will decide what to read
under the instructor’s guidance. As per students’ request, some other books may be added.

(1) Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow by Yuval Noah Harari


(2) The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins

Evaluation:

Grades are based on


(1) Attendance and participation in class 20 points
(2) Three writing assignments 40 points
(3) Book reading & writing 40 points

Attendance: In order for you to meet the objectives of this course, regular and punctual class attendance
is vital.

1. Excused Absences - If you have a valid reason for being absent (illness, family emergency,
school sponsored activity, professional obligation, or severe weather emergency), then you must
present a written excuse within one week of your return. If you do not submit a written excuse,
then the absence will be recorded as unexcused.

2. Unexcused Absences. Unexcused absences and tardiness will negatively affect your final
grade. EVERY UNEXCUSED ABSENCE will result in a deduction of 5 total grade points from
your final grade. Five absences lead automatically to F. Unexcused tardies are unacceptable. Two
tardies count as an absence. Absences (either excused or unexcused) will affect your participation
grade.
Participation:

Students are to come prepared to participate meaningfully in class discussion, small group
activities and assignments. Students are expected to call upon relevant experiences and course
readings for contributions. A portion of the grade for this course will depend on your level of
attendance, preparation, participation, and contribution. For some, this means learning to speak
up, to add comments or to raise questions. For others, it means being sensitive and allowing
others to contribute.

Important note: Cell phones and other electronic devices can be used only for class work.
Inappropriate use of cell phones (e.g., Kakao talk or text messaging) will result in a five-point
deduction from your final grade.

Important note: Smartphones and other electronic devices can be used only for class work.
Inappropriate use of smartphones (e.g., Kakao talk or text messaging) will result in a five-point
deduction from your final grade.

Writing Assignments: 40 points each

During the course of the semester, students will write three types of writing: (1) a resume and a
cover letter, (2) a public speech script, and (3) an opinion essay. The purpose of writing
assignments is not just improving students’ ability to express themselves in written English, i.e.,
learning to write, but writing to learn, which can help students develop critical and analytical
thinking and acquire an in-depth understanding of the topics. More details on each assignment
will be provided in class as the semester progresses.

Book reading & writing practice 40 points

Reading and writing practice:


Book selection process: During the second or third week of the semester, students will choose
which book – between the aforementioned two books - they would like to read over the
semester. Through a voting process, a book preferred (e.g., voted) by a majority of the students
will be selected for reading, writing, and in-class discussion practice.

Students will be asked to read one or two chapters per week. In order to ensure that students
come to class well prepared, students are required to write a summary of the assigned chapter(s)
– about 4 or 5 sentences in length. Your summary work will be checked in class for credit
completion.

In the course of the semester, vocabulary measures will be administered to assess each student’s
English vocabulary knowledge for a diagnostic purpose. More details will be given in class.

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