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Aug 31, 2024
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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
- Apply reading strategies (i.e. skimming, scanning, finding main ideas, drawing conclusions, paraphrasing, summarizing and using context clues) at an intermediate – high level.
- 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.
- Infer context based on lexical items and prior knowledge and construct sentences and questions using the vocabulary words in an academic context.
- 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 Corequisite: None Graded: Letter Grade
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