Special Topics in ESL: Mastering Academic Vocabulary

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Instruction and practice aimed at understanding and using high-frequency academic vocabulary. Vocabulary study is approached on three levels: the word, the sentence, and the context level. Provide students with the rules of spelling in American English. Enhance the students' competence in identifying roots and affixes in borrowed words and using proper spelling in written discourse. 36.00 hours lecture. (Pass/No Pass only)