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EN23204 Creative English Reading

Mattayom 3 Semester 2 60 hours 1.5 credit
This course aims to help students develop their reading comprehension, vocabulary and writing skills. This
course will provide students with vocabulary building, practice in comprehension, useful reading skills, such as

predicting, skimming, scanning, reading for details and understanding cause and effect. It will also build upon student’s
skills in writing descriptive and narrative essays.
The course will also help students to learn to follow instructions given verbally by the teacher or written in

textbook exercises, quizzes, and exams. The student’s ability to follow instructions will facilitate their ability to
complete learning exercises correctly and improve their writings, quiz and test scores. Following instructions correctly
will improve students’ overall performance in many areas.
Throughout this course students will gain experience in selecting keys words to scan for, and in skimming and

scanning texts for key words in order to find details for quick answers to questions. Skimming and scanning texts for key
words is necessary to complete exercises, quizzes and examinations within the time allotted and will improve their
ability to quickly comprehend the gist of a reading, be it a newspaper article, essay or test reading. This ability will also

help prepare students to search for information, summarize and present results verbally or in written form.
Students will also practice reading aloud from texts to build their English pronunciation, proper grammar use,
pacing and speaking fluency. This will also help students to build their vocabulary and confidence in speaking English in
conversation.

Objectives:
At the end of this course, students will be able to:
1. Act in compliance with requests, instructions, clarifications and explanations heard and read.

2. Accurately read aloud texts, news, advertisements and short poems by observing the principles of reading.
3. Specify and write various forms of non-text information related to sentences and texts heard or read.
4. Choose/specify the topic, main idea and supporting details and express opinions about what has been

heard and read from various types of media, as well as provide justifications and examples for illustration.
5. Speak and write appropriately to ask for and give data, explain compare and express opinions about what
has been heard or read.

6. Speak/ write to summarize the main idea, theme and topic identified from analysis of matters/news/
incidents/situations of interest to society.
7. Compare and explain similarities and difference between the lifestyles and culture of native speakers and
those of Thais and apply them appropriately.

8. Search for, collect and summarize the data/facts related to other learning areas from learning sources, and
present them through speaking/writing.
9. Use foreign languages in conducting research, collecting and summarizing knowledge/various data from the

media and different learning sources for further education and livelihood.
9 objectives in total for each course