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| CATALOG INFORMATION
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| Discipline and Nbr:
ESL 317R | Title:
LOW ADVANCED ESL READING |
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| Full Title:
Low Advanced ESL Reading |
| Last Reviewed:2/22/2010 9:29:26 AM |
| Units | Course Hours per Week | | Nbr of Weeks | Course Hours Total |
| Maximum | 3.00 | Lecture Scheduled | 3.00 | 17.5 max. | Lecture Scheduled | 52.50 |
| Minimum | 3.00 | Lab Scheduled | 0 | 6 min. | Lab Scheduled | 0 |
| | Contact DHR | 0 | | Contact DHR | 0 |
| | Contact Total | 3.00 | | Contact Total | 52.50 |
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| | Non-contact DHR | 0 | | Non-contact DHR Total | 0 |
| | Total Out of Class Hours: 105.00 | Total Student Learning Hours: 157.50 | |
Title 5 Category:
AA Degree Non-Applicable
Grading:
Grade or P/NP
Repeatability:
00 - Two Repeats if Grade was D, F, NC, or NP
Also Listed As:
Formerly:
ENGL 317R
Catalog Description:
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Development of college-level reading skills through theme-based reading, with particular focus on comprehension, vocabulary and rate. Recommended for non-native speakers of English.
Prerequisites/Corequisites:
Qualifying ESL Placement Test score; OR Course Completion of ESL 315R with grade of C or better or Pass.
Recommended Preparation:
Limits on Enrollment:
Schedule of Classes Information
Description:
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Development of college-level reading skills through theme-based reading, with particular focus on comprehension, vocabulary and rate. Recommended for non-native speakers of English.
(Grade or P/NP)
Prerequisites:Qualifying ESL Placement Test score; OR Course Completion of ESL 315R with grade of C or better or Pass.
Recommended:
Limits on Enrollment:
Transfer Credit:
Repeatability:00 - Two Repeats if Grade was D, F, NC, or NP
ARTICULATION, MAJOR, and CERTIFICATION INFORMATION
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Certificate/Major Applicable:
Not Certificate/Major Applicable
COURSE CONTENT
Outcomes and Objectives:
At the conclusion of this course, the student should be able to:
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Upon completion of this course, students will be able to:
1. Employ level-appropriate pre-reading skills.
2. Identify main ideas, details and organizational patterns.
3. Summarize short reading selections of fiction and nonfiction.
4. Use contextual clues to determine the meaning of new vocabulary.
5. Utilize common affixes and roots and determine the meaning of new vocabulary.
6. Use elements of fiction to analyze short stories or a short novel.
7. Utilize SRJC Library databases to find source material.
8. Improve reading speed and comprehension.
Topics and Scope
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Reading selections should be excerpted from common academic texts and/or current topics of political or social import from magazines, newspapers or journals.
A. Nonfiction Reading
1. Pre-reading skills to survey, predict, skim and scan
2. Main idea in newspaper and magazine articles and selections from academic texts
3. Supporting details
4. Organizational patterns and rhetorical forms
5. Outlining
6. Transition words and phrases
7. Differentiation between fact and opinion
8. Inference skills
9. Summarizing short articles
B. Fiction Reading
1. Pre-reading skills to predict plot and theme
2. Elements of fiction in short stories, poetry and/or a short novel, such as point-of-view, setting, character (protagonist, antagonist), conflict, plot, climax, theme, symbolism, and foreshadowing
3. Sensory and figurative language such as simile and metaphor
4. Inference skills to determine author's meaning
5. Summarizing
C. Vocabulary Skills
1. Contextual clues to infer meaning
2. High frequency affixes and roots
D. Information Literacy Skills
1. Use of periodicals such as popular magazines, newspapers, and academic journals
2. Use of SRJC Library online catalog/databases
Assignments:
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The following represent the types of assignments that may be included:
A. In-class Work
1. Vocabulary and reading comprehension exercises
2. Pair and group activities, includes oral presentations
3. Discussions analyzing readings and a variety of themes
4. Objective exams and quizzes
5. Summarizing and paraphrasing activities
6. Timed nonfiction reading
7. Silent sustained reading
8. Exercises using SRJC Library online catalog/databases
B. Homework
1. Comprehension exercises from the assigned textbook including main idea, details, organizational patterns and fact versus opinion
2. Vocabulary journal of high frequency vocabulary found in fiction and nonfiction readings
3. Summaries and reader responses to short stories, a short novel and nonfiction articles
4. Journal entries in response to readings
Methods of Evaluation/Basis of Grade.
| Writing: Assessment tools that demonstrate writing skill and/or require students to select, organize and explain ideas in writing. | Writing
20 - 40% |
| Written homework, summaries and journals | |
| Problem solving: Assessment tools, other than exams, that demonstrate competence in computational or non-computational problem solving skills. | Problem Solving
0 - 0% |
| None | |
| Skill Demonstrations: All skill-based and physical demonstrations used for assessment purposes including skill performance exams. | Skill Demonstrations
0 - 0% |
| None | |
| Exams: All forms of formal testing, other than skill performance exams. | Exams
50 - 70% |
| Objective quizzes and exams, midterm and final tests | |
| Other: Includes any assessment tools that do not logically fit into the above categories. | Other Category
10 - 15% |
| Class attendance and participation, oral presentations, timed reading charts | |
Representative Textbooks and Materials:
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Nonfiction
Reading Explorer 4, by MacIntyre, Heinle-Cengage Learning, 2010
Reading Matters 4, by Whole & Henein, Heinle-Cengage Learning, 2002
Steps to Academic Reading 5: Between the Lines, 3rd ed., by Zukowski, Faust & Johnston, Heinle-Cengage Learning, 2002
Well Read 3, by Pasternak & Wrangall, Oxford University Press, 2008
Fiction
The Pearl, by Steinbeck, Penguin edition, 2002
A Sense of Wonder, by Preston, Pearson Longman, 2003
Short Takes in Fiction, by Saitz & Stieglitz, Pearson Longman, 2009
Course Readers: instructor-prepared materials
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