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Oct 31, 2024
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ESL 82 - Reading I Credits: 3 Description The goal of this course is for students to develop intermediate–low level reading skills through analysis of assigned texts.
Student Learning Outcomes
- Identify reading strategies (i.e. skimming, scanning, finding main ideas, drawing conclusions, paraphrasing, summarizing and using context clues) and apply them at an intermediate – low level.
- Identify the setting, main ideas, details, themes, and facts and opinions from stories in intermediate – low level ESL textbooks and list the relationships between the text and real-life personal experiences.
- Identify lexical items in context and construct sentences and questions using the vocabulary words in a personal context.
- Compose very short summaries of intermediate – low level ESL texts with accurately paraphrased main ideas and major details and without plagiarizing.
Prerequisite: ESL Placement Test or ESL 78 with a grade of C- or higher, or Instructor approval Corequisite: None Graded: Letter Grade
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