340347 UE Reading Comprehension and Text Production: English (2019W)

"What is reading?" And: "How do you read it?"
In this class on reading comprehension & textual creation, you will experience a challenging but cooperative, collaborative and supportive environment in which you can experiment with your own individual communicative resources (metaphor of repertoire: whatever you bring to this class – let’s play with it, strengthen it, further develop it!).
We will work on reading comprehension strategies (based on hermeneutic or discourse analytic approaches) and reading-based writing skills (focusing). Participants will acquire text analysis methods that enable them to understand and discuss texts (including visuals) as communicative events.
Peer reviewing will strengthen your reflection on your own (textual) agency and on matters of choice, alternative, and consequence: intended (we—as writers) and experienced (we—as readers) impact. Two maxims will guide our work in class: clarity & impact.
In-class reading performances (i.e., reading aloud) and writing exercises (with reading the texts back), online activities, assignments in reading comprehension & textual creation.
Objectives:
(i) improvement of reading comprehension (including visuals) and
(ii) text-based writing skills—with a focus on exploring different types of meaning, organizing texts and integrating sources.
Individual, pair and group work.