Academic Reading and Writing for English Language Learners II.

Catalog description

This is the final ESOL Reading and Writing Course designed to fully prepare Non-Native Speakers of English and bilingual students for college-level courses. It is intended for those who have mastered an intermediate level of English. Students will develop the skills to write unified and coherent paragraphs and to write cohesive essays with thesis statements, introductions, and conclusions using a variety of rhetorical skills, conjunctions and transitions at both the sentence and paragraph levels. Moreover, this course includes further acquisition of academic vocabulary using context and textual clues, identifying main ideas and supporting details, skimming for main ideas, scanning for specific information, making inferences, previewing and predicting, reading critically, distinguishing facts from opinions and interpreting graphs and charts. Concomitantly, this course offers a comprehensive review of structures such as perfect tenses, passive voice, compound and complex sentences including adjective, adverb and noun clauses, modal perfects, conditional, unreal conditionals and subjunctives through extensive communicative language practice. A grade of C or better is required to pass the course. Prerequisites: Placement.