Intermediate Core Literacy B

Catalog description

This course is a continuation of ESL-206A Intermediate Core Literacy A, an intermediate level (CEFR B1 to B1+) reading and writing course for English learners. The learning outcomes for reading focus on the comprehension of academic texts with an emphasis on academic reading skills such as summarizing and paraphrasing, making inferences, identifying organizational patterns of texts, and expanding academic vocabulary in a variety of content areas. The learning outcomes for writing target organizing information and supporting main ideas with facts, statistics, examples, and quotations, culminating in the development of academic paragraphs and the composition of short essays featuring a variety of organizational patterns (e.g., chronological, cause and effect, argument). The course meets six (6) clock hours per week.