Designing a Skills-Based Reading Course for Teaching English

Here is a true story of the real experience that the book committee went through while revising the freshman reading course, designing a new syllabus and developing materials. This booklet describes the theoretical background and the processes followed in recreating the freshman reading course at an English-medium university after the book committee completed its work plan successfully. Some samples of the teaching materials and the questionnaire are included in this booklet. It is expected that it can serve as an invaluable step-by-step guide for those who would like to design a freshman reading course and develop materials by using a modular approach depending on students' needs at any university where the medium of instruction is English.