EL510: Academic Reading I (4 units, 0 credits)

Chiyeko Kristin Takayoshi, Adjunct Instructor in ESL
Winter 2006 Pasadena

DESCRIPTION:

This Advanced reading course is designed to combine the content of a specified Individualized Distance Learning (IDL) course with a presentation of skills and strategies necessary for developing competency in academic research. Reading skills (reading strategies along with reading for comprehension) are emphasized, while focusing on the content of the IDL course.

LEARNING OUTCOMES:

• Review and reinforce learning outcomes in Intermediate and High-Intermediate levels
• Improve reading speed and comprehension
• Gain new reading strategies

• Skimming
• Scanning
• Reading to Evaluate (fact from opinion, bias, inferences, purpose, tone, figurative language)
• Active reading strategies and study skills

• Understand how to read for research
• Synthesizing information in writing assignments

COURSE FORMAT:

Class time will be spent building reading, comprehension, and research skills through a variety of individual and group activities.

REQUIRED READING:

Students will read books that are assigned in the lDL course, which will vary from term to term.

RECOMMENDED READING:

Clinton, J. Robert. Reading on the Rung: Continuum Reading Concepts. Barnabas Publishers, 1997.
Dodd, Debbie. Dictionary of Theological Terms in Simplified English. Evangelism and Missions Information Service (EMIS), 2003.
Pierson, Cheri. Dictionary of Theological Terms in Simplified English: Student Workbook. Evangelism and Missions Information Service (EMIS), 2003.
Langan, John. Ten Steps to Improving College Reading Skills. (4th ed.) Townsend Press, 2003.

ASSIGNMENTS:

Students will do a minimum of 10 reading activities with the purpose of developing particular reading skills including: skimming and scanning, extracting information, reading for comprehension, and drawing inferences in their IDL course.

PREREQUISITES: Students must be concurrently registered in a specified IDL course.

RELATIONSHIP TO CURRICULUM: Meets partial requirements to advance from the ESL Program.

FINAL EXAM: ESL Exit Exam.

Last Date Edited: November 22, 2005