BASIC COURSE OUTLINE

Course title: English

Code: IG.091308
Credit (sks): 2 (2 x 50 mins.)
Instructor: Hermanto, SS., MPd.
Room: ?
Time: ?

General Course Objective: provides a number of useful reading skills designed

to develop reading competence in the area of science and engineering.

Specific Course Objectives:

1. Students are able to apply reading skills and strategies effectively, to
comprehend science and engineering English written text.
2. Students are able to comprehend descriptive oral text in English
3. Students are able to present ideas in the form of oral and written
argumentation.

Meeting and Activities

Meeting Activity
1 Introduction to the Course: Describing syllabus, Objective,
Activities, Materials, Evaluation
Assign Students to prepare a chapter of their own textbook
describing a brief introduction of their own field of study e.g.
Introduction to Mechanical Engineering
2 Introducing English language in science and engineering
Students: Working with their own text to locate the specific
characteristics of the English used in the text.
3 Overview of Reading Strategies
4 Scanning
5 Skimming
6 Previewing and Predicting
7 Recognizing Topic and Main Idea
8 Text organization: Generalization and details
9 Submitting Assignment 1
10 Time order and comparison-contrast
11 Returning the result of assignment 1
12 Cause effect
13 Making inference
14 Summarizing
15 Review Session
16 Submitting Assignment 2
17 Silent week
18 Final test
Materials:
- Book: Developing Reading Skills for Science and Engineering Students.
- Labwork book:
- Students generate materials

Evaluation:
1. Assignment 1 20%
2. Assignment 2 20%
3. Labwork 20%
4. Final Test 40%

Assignment 1: Exploiting a chapter of their field by identifying a specific

vocabulary, language function (defining, classifying/categorizing, giving
examples, comparing-contrasting, finding main idea

Assignment 2: Summarizing a chapter of their field by the steps of clustering for

generating main ideas, outlining, drafting, revising, final product.

Labwork: 5 meetings (Listening1, listening 2, introduction to academic

presentation, presentation 1, presentation 2)

Final test: Reading comprehension