By the end of the course students will be able to:

1. comprehend contrasting viewpoints in a wide range of authentic reading materials including newspapers, journals, reviews and academic texts.

2. effectively apply extensive and intensive reading strategies in context

3.synthesize information or analyze a problem as well as reacting on the basis of evaluation using their critical thinking skills

4.analyze and produce different types of writings at paragraph level  

5. apply spelling and punctuation conventions as well as non-alphabetic symbol use in context