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Course Syllabus

ESL 0241 Level 1 Content Based Reading

  • Division: Humanities
  • Department: English/Second Language
  • Credit/Time Requirement: Credit: 1.5; Lecture: 3; Lab: 0
  • Prerequisites: Placement in ESL 0241 through the department
  • Semesters Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer
  • Semester Approved: Spring 2021
  • Five-Year Review Semester: Fall 2025
  • End Semester: Fall 2026
  • Optimum Class Size: 10
  • Maximum Class Size: 20

Course Description

This eight-week content based reading course is designed to give students the opportunity to develop basic reading skills in English in several content areas. Students will use a variety of authentic reading materials to learn basic prereading and reading strategies. These strategies are designed to improve their reading comprehension. The reading materials will also be used to expand the students' vocabulary.

Justification

The ESL Department at Snow College houses the intensive ESL program which is accredited through the American Association of Intensive English Programs (AAIEP). The four-level program provides instruction for students at Levels 1, 2, 3, and 4 (elementary through exit levels). This course is a core course for Level 1.

Student Learning Outcomes

  1. Upon completion of this course, students will be able to use reading strategies they have learned in various content areas. Students will have increased their English vocabulary, improved their reading skills, and learned to determine meanings of words by context. They will know how to discuss and summarize what they have read.

Course Content

Authentic, unaltered books and other reading materials of an academic nature will be used to introduce students to culturally and political topics that they will be reading and hearing about in future ESL classes.Students will learn about reading strategies such as determining meaning from context and looking for markers which indicate the major rhetorical patterns in English.Novels or short stories of the instructor's choice, at the appropriate level, may also be used.