科目コード	科 目 名	指定	期 間	単位	年次	担 当 者
31112	リーディング�V	必修	春学期	１	２	Gabriel Yardley

【授業概要】

As in the previous semester, students will be introduced to reading strategies intended to reinforce and improve reading comprehension skills. They will be presented with a wide variety of international, native-level reading materials which will help prepare them for texts and tasks they may encounter in English-speaking environments. Vocabulary acquisition will be an integral feature of the course, and by the end of the year, students should be able to read and evaluate a wider range of texts with reduced dependence on a dictionary, and at a significantly improved rate and level of comprehension.

The text adopted for the course encourages young adult learners of English to build and enhance vocabulary and reading skills. Additional intensive and extensive reading exercises will be regularly assigned; class members will also have one of two different readers in this first semester, and will be encouraged to choose their own readers from a varied list for the second semester. Students will also be presented with tasks requiring them to appraise examples of journalism, poetry, music and classic art.

【学修目標】

As in the previous semester, the following elements of reading will be the principal features of the course:

surveying, predicting, skimming, scanning inferring, structuring;

the acquisition of the more important Latin- and Greek-derived word roots and prefixes;

reading for pleasure.

By the end of Reading III, students will understand the meanings of the roots and prefixes contained in the following words (as well as their differently spelled variants):

DETAIN; INTERMITTENT; PRECEPT; OFFER; INSIST; MONOGRAPH; EPILOGUE; ASPECT; UNCOMPLICATED; NONEXTENDED; REPRODUCTION; INDISPOSED; OVERSUFFICIENT and MISTRANSCRIBE. These will be complemented by additional, useful roots and prefixes.

【授業計画】

１．Introduction to Reading III (Fall); Prefix and Word Root Test 1; book purchase.

２．Introduction to class reader and outline of reader and prefix assignments for the semester.

３．Homework review 1; RA3 reading comprehension Unit 11; intensive & extensive vocabulary development and reading exercises.

４．Homework review 2; RA3 reading comprehension Unit 12; intensive & extensive vocabulary development and reading exercises.

５．Homework review 3; RA3 reading comprehension Unit 13; intensive & extensive vocabulary development and reading exercises.

６．Homework review 4; RA3 reading comprehension Unit 14; intensive & extensive vocabulary development and reading exercises.

７．Homework review 5; RA3 reading comprehension Unit 15; intensive & extensive vocabulary development and reading exercises.

８．Homework review 6; RA3 reading comprehension Review 1; intensive & extensive vocabulary development and reading exercises.

９．Homework review 7; RA3 reading comprehension Unit 16; intensive & extensive vocabulary development and reading exercises.

10．Homework rev. 8; RA3 reading comprehension Unit 17; intensive & extensive vocabulary development and reading exercises.

11．Homework rev. 9; RA3 reading comprehension Unit 18; intensive & extensive vocabulary development and reading exercises.

12．Homework rev. 10; RA3 reading comprehension Unit 19; intensive & extensive vocabulary development and reading exercises.

13．Homework rev. 11; RA3 reading comprehension Unit 20; intensive & extensive vocabulary development and reading exercises.

14．Homework rev. 12; RA3 reading comprehension Review 2; intensive & extensive vocabulary development and reading exercises.

15．Final homework review; Root Test 4; comprehensive root and prefix review and complementary resource materials.

16．Fall Semester reader essay, course feedback questionnaire.

【授業時間外の学習（準備学習等）】

Study and preparation outside of class will vary from week to week depending on the assignment. The instructor will give adequate notice of any due assignments as well as advice on how long they will take to complete, and will ensure that students are not given excessive workloads. Weekly homework assignments will not generally exceed 90 minutes.

【評価方法】

This will be a particularly active course and attendance and participation are exceptionally important. Students’ participation and class preparation will informally evaluated in every lesson, with the instructor taking into account students’ efforts and progress in dealing with assignments involving the use of the class text and additional materials. Students can expect to be assessed on completion, presentation and quality of homework; and a final essay exam which will be related to reading materials covered during the semester. In general, the percentages would be as follows:

active class participation 40%;

vocabulary and reading homework 30%;

in-class vocabulary and reading assignments 10%

reader essay exam 20%.

A prefix and word root test will be given at the beginning and end of the semester to assess each student’s prefix acquisition level. Any change in the above percentages will be communicated to the students at the beginning of the semester. Self-evaluation will also be a feature of the course, and students will be required to provide feedback on the program at the end of the semester. Late presentation of 3 or more homework assignments will seriously jeopardize a student’s chances of obtaining a grade higher than “C” for the semester. Missing more than 3 classes without due cause will seriously jeopardize a student’s chances of obtaining a passing grade for the semester.

【テキスト】

All students will continue to use Reading Advantage 3 by Casey Malarcher (Thomson-Heinle).

Students will also buy 1 reader from the following list and based on their choices at the end of the previous semester.

1) Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep

P K Dick Oxford Bookworms Stage 5

2) Our Mutual Friend

C Dickens Heinemann Guided Readers Upper Level

3) Cry Freedom

J Briley Oxford Bookworms Stage 6

4) The Mayor of Casterbridge

T Hardy Oxford Progressive Readers Level 5

5) A Window on the Universe

R Bradbury et al Oxford Bookworms Collection Unabridged

6) My Brother, My Sister and I

Y Kawashima-Watkins Simon Pulse Unabridged

7) The Magician’s Nephew

C S Lewis Harper/Trophy Unabridged

8) Through a Glass Darkly

J Gaarder Orion Fiction Unabridged

9) So Far From The Bamboo Grove*

Y Kawashima-Watkins Simon Pulse Unabridged

10) Boy

R Dahl Penguin Unabridged

11) The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar

R Dahl Penguin Unabridged

12) Shopaholic Ties the Knot

S Kinsella Dell Unabridged

13) Shopaholic Abroad

S Kinsella Dell Unabridged

14) Someone Like You

R Dahl Penguin Unabridged

15) The Tightrope Men

D Bagley Fontana Unabridged

This list of readers is subject to updating and students will be informed at the end of the previous semester is any changes are planned.