The Basics of Effective Learning
You are at Unit 1. This unit has been named 'study skills'. Have you ever come across the term study skills during your studies? If not? Do not worry at all. We shall discuss in detail what do we mean by this term and what is its importance in achieving success or good marks in studies. In your introduction to this course we discussed a few important related issues.
In this unit we would like to recap very briefly what this course is all about, how the course has been organized, how it should be studied in order to get maximum benefit from it and, of course, the right place and time to study. Your Compulsory English I consists of 9 units and is a 3 credit hour course as mentioned in the introduction. Each unit of this course is roughly divided into three sections, Section A, B and C. Şection A deals with various functions in English and provides practice in listening and speaking skills. In other words, this section provides you practice in using English in different kinds of situations you come across every day.
It also briefly takes into account the grammar item required to express that particular function, e.g, while greeting someone we make use of wh questions so we shall discuss wh questions in the greetings unit. Section B is meant to give you practice in reading skills. It comprises short texts which you are expected to read making use of different reading techniques such as, skimming, scanning, prediction, anticipation etc.
(We shall learn all these techniques in detail in different units). A good reader is the one who can read reasonably fast and understand the written text. Section Cis based on writing skills and activities. In all nine units the sections will be marked as following.
Introductions Section B Reading: Learning to Read Section C Writing: Filling Forms and Questionnair
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