Table 4 ENGLCOM syllabus weekly schedule sample
From: Documenting systemic school reform from vision to standards and assessment: the case of DLSU
Time Frame | Themes | Reading, Viewing & Language Component (RVLC) | Writing Component (WC) | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Â | Â | Reading & Viewing | Language | Â |
Weeks 1-2 | Academic Literacy | Introduction to academic reading | Academic language: Formality | Orientation |
| Â | Â | Reading academic texts | Sentence sense | Diagnostic Test |
|  |  | Recognizing rhetorical patterns |  Correcting fragments, comma splices and run-on sentences | Introduction to academic writing style |
|  |  | Reading strategies | Use of active verbs |  Audience |
|  |  |  Pre-reading |  |  Voice |
|  |  |  While reading |  |  Conventions |
|  |  |  Post-reading |  |  Purpose |
| Â | Â | Reading skills | Â | Process approach to writing |
|  |  |  Skimming |  |  Pre-writing |
|  |  |  Scanning |  |  Revising |
|  |  |  Noting details |  |  Editing |
|  |  |  Getting the main idea |  | Pre-writing techniques |
|  |  |  |  |  Free writing |
 Questioning | ||||
 Listing | ||||
 Clustering | ||||
| Â | Â | Â | Â | Structure of the traditional essay |