On February 23rd of 2022, the department of English Language Teaching (ELT) at the Faculty of Education at Tishk International University (TIU) organized an open workshop on reading/writing. The workshop was aimed at improving students’ reading and writing performance.
In the workshop, the Assit. Lecturers Karwan Karim, Kanar Zirak, and Soran Mustafa at the ELT department introduced the writing technique of “paraphrasing” to the 1st grade students of the department.
Each student was given a piece of poem. They were shown that “when they paraphrase a poem, they can use their own words to explain the major ideas line-by-line.”
The goal of the workshop was to teach them the importance of “rephrasing the poet’s ideas in their own words without evaluating or addressing the author’s hidden messages or underlying themes.”
Reading Performance is a workshop held by the ELT department where each week an effective reading and writing technique will be presented and modeled to various students of the department.
