ENGL 086/087 Academic Advanced ESL Reading, Writing, and Grammar Combined

In this course, students will develop their reading comprehension and vocabulary building with an emphasis on academic preparation for college-level courses. Students will apply critical thinking skills and information literacy skills to analyze advanced-level readings. Students will acquire the English language skills needed to write multi-paragraph compositions at a level of accuracy and fluency appropriate for an advanced learner of academic English. Using activities, readings, and discussions, students will write compositions employing a variety of rhetorical modes. Writing themes will help students to develop a global awareness and critical thinking skills. Reading and writing are approached as an integrated part of an ESL student’s overall English language learning, not as isolated skills.

Credits

6

Prerequisite

Appropriate score on English placement test or successful completion of ENGL 083 and/or ENGL 084

Corequisite

INFO 100

Hours Weekly

8 hours weekly

Course Objectives

1. Demonstrate comprehension of assigned readings.
2. Demonstrate comprehension of college-level vocabulary.
3. Read a novel or memoir and use critical thinking skills to analyze and respond to related ideas.
4. Apply critical thinking skills and information literacy skills to analyze language and rhetorical choices.
5. Paraphrase and summarize assigned passages.
6. Employ the writing process to generate, organize, and develop ideas and to revise written work.
7. Employ the rules of academic essay formatting.
8. Write introductions that effectively open a composition.
9. Create thesis statements that are clear, relevant, and indicative of the essay's rhetorical mode.
10. Write body paragraphs that develop and support the thesis.
11. Write compositions focused on main ideas that are unified and coherent.
12. Write conclusions that effectively close the composition.
13. Use information literacy skills to incorporate outside sources.
14. Compose complex and correctly structured sentences that contain a variety of phrases and clauses.
15. Demonstrate correct use of the English verb system.
16. Demonstrate correct use of parts of speech.
17. Use appropriate vocabulary and word choice for the purpose and audience of the writing.

Course Objectives

1. Demonstrate comprehension of assigned readings.
2. Demonstrate comprehension of college-level vocabulary.
3. Read a novel or memoir and use critical thinking skills to analyze and respond to related ideas.
4. Apply critical thinking skills and information literacy skills to analyze language and rhetorical choices.
5. Paraphrase and summarize assigned passages.
6. Employ the writing process to generate, organize, and develop ideas and to revise written work.
7. Employ the rules of academic essay formatting.
8. Write introductions that effectively open a composition.
9. Create thesis statements that are clear, relevant, and indicative of the essay's rhetorical mode.
10. Write body paragraphs that develop and support the thesis.
11. Write compositions focused on main ideas that are unified and coherent.
12. Write conclusions that effectively close the composition.
13. Use information literacy skills to incorporate outside sources.
14. Compose complex and correctly structured sentences that contain a variety of phrases and clauses.
15. Demonstrate correct use of the English verb system.
16. Demonstrate correct use of parts of speech.
17. Use appropriate vocabulary and word choice for the purpose and audience of the writing.