Intermediate ESL Reading and Writing

Catalog description

This high-intermediate ESL course focuses on refining fundamental reading and writing skills. Course emphasis is on independent reading, strengthening reading comprehension, analysis of main ideas and significant details, response to facts and opinions, vocabulary enrichment, writing process, paragraph development and organization, purpose, audience, and sentence types. This course takes a content-based approach to instruction, connecting skills to cultural context, focusing on topics of health and/or learning to earn and planning for success in present and future goals. This noncredit course mirrors ESL 118 (credit). Prerequisite: ESL 108 or ESL 158.