EL510: ESL: Academic Reading I
(4 units, 0 credits)
Michelle
Morita Cho, Adjunct Instructor
in ESL
Winter 2007 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:
This course will meet for two-hour sessions twice weekly
for ten weeks. 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 IDL course, which will vary from term to term.
Clinton, J. Robert. Reading on the Run: Continuum Reading Concepts.
Barnabas Publishers, 1997.
Langan, John. Ten Steps to Improving College Reading Skills. (4th ed.)
Townsend Press, 2003.
RECOMMENDED
READING:
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.
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.