LANG322

Module code

LANG322

Module title

Developing Reading and Writing

Prescription

Students will develop the reading and writing skills required to participate with increasing independence and fluency in academic, community and/or employment English language contexts.

Programmes

EL2113

NZQA Level

Level 3

NZQA Credits

15

Delivery method

Web-Enhanced

Learning hours

Total learning hours: 150

Resources required

Learning Outcomes: On successful completion of this course students will be able to:
LO1: Interpret and explain the main point and some specific details in a moderately complex text relating to reasonably familiar topics relevant to the applied context.
LO2: Write a clear connected text on a reasonably familiar topic relevant to the applied context.
Content: • Proof-reading and error awareness
• Writing a report on products
• Identifying main ideas from examples
• Formal and informal correspondence
• Responding to a topic
• Identifying genres of correspondence
• Proof-reading for articles
• Describing processes
• Identifying facts from opinions
• Identifying problems and solutions in a text
• Identifying and explaining statistics
• Describing trends
• Avoiding repetition
• Predicting content
• Identifying examples
• Writing reviews
• Writing formal reports
• Inferring the writer’s opinion
• Summarising
• Cause and effect essays
• Inferring emotions
• New General Service List, first 2000 words
Assessment Criteria: In order to pass a course, students must:
• Meet all course learning outcomes
• Pass all summative assessments
• Attend at least 85% of scheduled classes (On campus)
Teaching and Learning Strategy: May include:
• Experiential and task-based learning
• Online activities
• Group/collaborative projects Downloadable pre-recorded lectures
• Online forums and discussion groups
• Presentations with or without voice-over
• Worksheets and other directed tasks
• Demonstrations
• Role plays
• Cultural awareness activities
Learning and Teaching Resource: • NMIT Moodle
• Online facilitator
• Scenarios and simulations (may be used)
• Online resources
• Library including resources
• E-textbook

LANG322 – Developing Reading and Writing