2020-2021 Catalog and Student Handbook 
    
    Mar 29, 2024  
2020-2021 Catalog and Student Handbook [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

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ESL 132 - Reading III


Credits: 3
Description
The goal of this course is for students to develop intermediate–high level reading skills through analysis of assigned texts.

Student Learning Outcomes
  1. Apply reading strategies (i.e. skimming, scanning, finding main ideas, drawing conclusions, paraphrasing, summarizing and using context clues) at an intermediate – high level.
  2. Identify the setting, main ideas, details, themes, and facts and opinions from stories in intermediate – mid level ESL textbooks and discuss the relationships between the text and real-life experiences as it relates to the student and others.
  3. Infer context based on lexical items and prior knowledge and construct sentences and questions using the vocabulary words in an academic context.
  4. Compose summaries of intermediate – high level ESL texts with accurately paraphrased main ideas and major details and without plagiarizing.

Prerequisite: ESL Placement Test; or ESL 88  with a grade of C- or higher; or Instructor approval



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