Course Essential Reading and Writing Skills

Deskripsi Mata Kuliah

The Essential Reading and Writing Skills course (8820304360) is a foundational 4-credit course designed for students in the English Education Study Program to develop essential reading comprehension and paragraph-level writing skills in English. The course integrates reading strategies, vocabulary development, and guided writing through short descriptive and narrative texts. Students learn to identify main ideas, supporting details, specific information, and relevant information from texts, and use these ideas to develop clear and coherent descriptive and narrative paragraphs. Learning activities include guided reading, vocabulary practice, collaborative discussions, writing practice, peer review, and revision. The course provides a foundation for students to develop literacy skills for further academic study and their future professional practice as English language educators, supporting SDG 4: Quality Education.

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Evaluating their own and others‘ writing for clarity, coherence, and adherence to the conventions of academic English, making revisions to improve the overall quality and effectiveness of the text.
Applying advanced concepts of applied linguistics to design and formulate strategies for improving reading comprehension and writing skills, particularly in academic contexts.

Aktifitas Pembelajaran

Pertemuan 1

Students are able to demonstrate their initial reading comprehension and paragraph-level writing abilities through a diagnostic assessment and understand the course learning objectives, requirements, and learning procedures.

Date 9 September 2026

Pertemuan 2

Students are able to apply previewing and predicting strategies to identify the topic and main ideas of short English texts and recognize relevant supporting information,

Date 16 September 2026

Pertemuan 3

Students are able to identify the main idea and relevant supporting information in short English texts and generate relevant ideas for a descriptive paragraph about a person through topic selection and brainstorming.

Date 23 September 2026

Pertemuan 4

Students are able to apply skimming and scanning strategies to locate the main idea and specific information in short English texts

Date 30 September 2026

Pertemuan 5
Students are able to identify definitions and relevant information in short English texts
Date 7 Oktober 2026

Pertemuan 6

Students will be able to identify the main ideas and supporting details in a text, and effectively take notes using an appropriate format.

Date 14 Oktober 2026

Pertemuan 7
Students are able to differentiate facts from opinions in short English texts
Date 21 Oktober 2026
Pertemuan 8
Students are able to use context clues to understand unfamiliar words in a reading text
Date 28 Oktober 2026
Pertemuan 9
Students are able to make appropriate inferences from short English texts and review
Date 4 November 2026
Pertemuan 10
Students are able to demonstrate their reading comprehension of Units 1-4
Date 11 November 2026
Pertemuan 11
Students are able to identify time and sequence information in short English texts and generate
Date 18 November 2026
Pertemuan 12
Students are able to identify the author’s purpose in short English texts
Date 25 November 2026
Pertemuan 13
Students are able to interpret information presented in numerical tables
Date 2 Desember 2026
Pertemuan 14
Students are able to interpret information presented in statistical tables and review
Date 9 Desember 2026
Pertemuan 15
Students are able to select relevant information from Units 1-6
Date 16 Desember 2026
Pertemuan 16
Students are able to demonstrate their reading comprehension and vocabulary of Units 4-6
Date 23 Desember 2026