Students read and analyze different texts in the major in order to develop the following skills and competences:
• Understanding meaning: deducing the meaning of unfamiliar words and word groups; relations within the sentence/complex sentences; implications - information not explicitly stated, conceptual meaning, e.g. comparison, purpose, cause, effect.
• Understanding relationships in the text: - text structure; the communicative value of sentences; relations between the parts of a text through lexical and grammatical cohesion devices and indicators in discourse.
• Understanding important points; distinguishing the main ideas from supporting detail; recognising unsupported claims and claims supported by evidence - fact from opinion; extracting salient points to summarise; following an argument; reading critically/evaluating the text.
• Reading efficiently: surveying the text, chapter/article, paragraphs, skimming for gist/general impression; scanning to locate specifically required information; reading quickly.
• Note taking.
• Summarizing.
Discussions on the following subjects: fundamental principles of text analysis; text types; semantic, syntactic and lexical characteristics of professional texts; communicative function of the text; structure of the text; semantic and pragmatic features of the text; content structure of the text; comprehension and interpretation of the text; efficient reading and interpretation of informative, narrative and descriptive texts in the major in English.