ENGL-086 Academic Advanced Reading for ESL Students

Students will continue to develop their reading skills in ENGL-086 with an emphasis on academic material. Reading is approached as an integral part of an ESL student's overall English language learning, not as an isolated skill. In addition to reading comprehension and vocabulary skill building, students will respond to information and concepts from a diversity of assigned materials, both orally and in writing.

Credits

3

Prerequisite

Appropriate score on English placement test or successful completion of ENGL-083

Corequisite

FYEX-100

Hours Weekly

4 hours weekly in class and lab

Course Objectives

1. 1. Demonstrate literal and inferential comprehension of assigned readings both orally and in writing.
   a. Identify the topic and main idea of a reading passage.
   b. List details used to support the main idea and draw logical conclusions.
   c. Annotate, paraphrase, summarize, and outline assigned readings; recognize patterns of organization.
   d. Apply inferencing skills to identify unstated meanings, implications and tone.
   e. Attain 70% or higher comprehension while increasing reading rate by 80 words per minute.
   
2. 2. Demonstrate comprehension of an expanded college-level vocabulary.
   a. Define an unknown word or idiom using the context.
   b. Identify prefixes, roots and suffixes and their meanings.
   c. Identify word forms and recognize collocations.
   d. Use an assigned set of vocabulary words appropriately in practice exercises and student-generated
   sentences.
   
3. 3. Read an assigned novel and use critical thinking skills to analyze and respond to related topics.
4. 4. Compose individual oral and written responses to varied reading selections, several of which will contain
   global themes.
   
5. 5. Participate in class discussion of assigned readings.
   

Course Objectives

1. 1. Demonstrate literal and inferential comprehension of assigned readings both orally and in writing.
   a. Identify the topic and main idea of a reading passage.
   b. List details used to support the main idea and draw logical conclusions.
   c. Annotate, paraphrase, summarize, and outline assigned readings; recognize patterns of organization.
   d. Apply inferencing skills to identify unstated meanings, implications and tone.
   e. Attain 70% or higher comprehension while increasing reading rate by 80 words per minute.
   
2. 2. Demonstrate comprehension of an expanded college-level vocabulary.
   a. Define an unknown word or idiom using the context.
   b. Identify prefixes, roots and suffixes and their meanings.
   c. Identify word forms and recognize collocations.
   d. Use an assigned set of vocabulary words appropriately in practice exercises and student-generated
   sentences.
   
3. 3. Read an assigned novel and use critical thinking skills to analyze and respond to related topics.
4. 4. Compose individual oral and written responses to varied reading selections, several of which will contain
   global themes.
   
5. 5. Participate in class discussion of assigned readings.