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3.00 Credits
Students will learn strategies that will help them become more proficient readers of English. These skills include previewing, finding themain idea, outlining, scanning, and detecting sequence.Reading selections will be both academic and of general interest. Students will strengthen comprehension skills through various exercises.Attention will be given to building vocabulary and dictionary usage. Class hours: 4 Lecture/week.
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3.00 Credits
This beginning ESL course emphasizes elementary competency in standard written English with a focus on basic grammar and writing skills. Emphasis will be given to organization and the writing process as well as paragraph development. Class hours: 4 Lecture/week.
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3.00 Credits
Students will develop spoken fluency and listening skills through short social and academic listening, guided class discussions, and presentations. Students will learn both to distinguish and to produce the sounds in English pronunciation as well as proper intonation and word groupings. Class hours: 6 Lecture/week.
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2.00 Credits
This is a four-skills course that integrates language instructions intomeaningful, real-life contexts. Students at the beginning level will learn mastery of the English language related to civics, the workplace, the community, and academics. Lessons will cover vocabulary, life stories, grammar, everyday conversation, and real-life reading, carefully developing learners' understanding through the use of all four skills. Class hours: 3 Lecture/week.
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3.00 Credits
Students continue to develop academic reading abilities and English vocabulary. In this course, students will read a variety of texts on contemporary academic and literary topics. Text are both academic and of general interest.Vocabulary exercises will relate to reading themes and will reinforce understanding of the passage. Prerequisite: ESL010 or appropriate placement score. Class hours: 4 Lecture/week.
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3.00 Credits
This course increases competency in standard written English with a focus on low intermediate grammar and writing skills.Writing exercises are primarily academic in nature and include practice in the targeted grammar structure. Prerequisite: ESL011 or appropriate placement score. Class hours: 4 Lecture/week.
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3.00 Credits
This course will include instruction in and practice of intermediate level listening and speaking activities. Listening tasks will include listening to academic lectures, note-taking skills, and organizing information from the notes. Students also practice speech appropriate to both social and academic settings, with emphasis placed on message delivery and content as well as language usage and pronunciation. Prerequisite: ESL 012 or appropriate placement score. Class hours: 6 Lecture/week.
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2.00 Credits
This course will provide students with a historical foundation of American culture and experience essential to academic success in American college classes. Students will become familiar withmajor periods in American history along with related authors, literature, and important personalities of the period leading to a knowledge base common among American college students. Students will understand the historical background behind American holidays and as well as the culture of the American classroom environment. Prerequisite: ESL013 or appropriate placement score. Class hours: 3 Lecture/week.
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3.00 Credits
A concentrated reading of textbook-based materials used in American college degree courses; for example, social sciences, hard sciences, education, business, and humanities. Development of comprehension skills to enhance their reading effectiveness and efficiency;may include identification of main ideas and supports, application of personal schema, and analysis of fact-based reading, speaking, listening, and writing is stressed; its use of textual clues, dictionary, and word analysis for learning word meaning. Prerequisite: ESL 030 or appropriate placement score and departmental approval. Class hours: 4 Lecture/week.
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3.00 Credits
Introduction to the techniques and practice of common modes of essay writing: explanatory, persuasive, and argumentative essays. Particular emphasis will be placed on developing academic writing skills that prepare students for college level writing. Logical analysis of components of the essay, integration of evidence from sources, and intensive application of major grammatical systems of English will be emphasized. Lectures will focus on developing high levels of competence in detecting and remedying common ESL writing problems to improve essay clarity and effectiveness. Prerequisite: ESL 031 or appropriate placement score and departmental approval. Class hours: 4 Lecture/week.
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