Advanced ESL Reading and Writing

Catalog description

This advanced ESL course focuses on strengthening reading and writing skills. Course emphasis is on independent reading, strengthening comprehension, evaluation of main ideas and significant details, analysis and evaluation of facts and opinions, search for bias, vocabulary enrichment, essay 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 U.S. history, religion, and/or politics in preparation for college-level coursework. This noncredit course mirrors ESL 128 (credit). Prerequisite: ESL 118 or ESL 168.