ELI105R

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ELL Reading & Study Skills 5

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Course Goals

course is designed to help English Language Learners (ELL) attain intermediate-level reading, listening, and speaking skills in order to understand more clearly and communicate more effectively in English.

Core Course Topics

Reading comprehension strategies including connecting, questioning, predicting, paraphrasing and summarizing
Locating and identifying topics, main ideas, and supporting details in authentic written and audio sources
Author’s or speaker’s message, audience and purpose
Textbook reading strategies, guided note taking, and active learning strategies used with written and audio sources
Vocabulary and idiom study
Academic discussion and presentation skills
American cultural literacy

Learning Objectives

Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

Apply a variety of reading comprehension strategies including, but not limited to, connecting, questioning, predicting, paraphrasing and summarizing.

Locate and discriminate between topics, main ideas, and supporting details in teacher-selected authentic written and audio fiction and non-fiction texts.

Show written and verbal evidence of ability to read and listen critically and analyze the authors message, audience, and purpose.

Show evidence of the ability to use a range of study skills in an American classroom.

Illustrate increased vocabulary and idiom knowledge.

Design academic presentations and discussions.

Demonstrate American cultural literacy.