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| CATALOG INFORMATION
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| Discipline and Nbr:
ESL 320R | Title:
ADV. ESL READING |
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| Full Title:
Advanced ESL Reading |
| Last Reviewed:2/22/2010 |
| 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
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Catalog Description:
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Development of college-level English reading skills with particular focus on comprehension, vocabulary, and critical analysis through exercises and written assignments. Recommended for non-native speakers of English.
Prerequisites/Corequisites:
Qualifying ESL Placement Test score; OR Course Completion of ESL 317R 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 English reading skills with particular focus on comprehension, vocabulary, and critical analysis through exercises and written assignments. Recommended for non-native speakers of English.
(Grade or P/NP)
Prerequisites:Qualifying ESL Placement Test score; OR Course Completion of ESL 317R 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. Recognize point of view and author bias in nonfiction readings.
4. Summarize unadapted readings of fiction and nonfiction.
5. Use contextual clues to determine the meaning of new vocabulary.
6. Utilize high frequency affixes and roots to determine the meaning of new vocabulary.
7. Use elements of fiction to analyze short stories and/or novels.
8. Utilize online databases for research.
9. Evaluate source material for reliability and validity.
10. Improve reading speed and comprehension.
Topics and Scope
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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. Differentiation between fact and opinion
7. Inferencing skills
8. Critical evaluation of readings for point of view, bias and validity
9. Note taking, paraphrasing, and summarizing
B. Fiction Reading
1. Pre-reading skills to predict plot and theme
2. Elements of fiction in short stories, poetry and novels, such as point-of-view, setting, character (protagonist, antagonist), plot, climax, theme, symbolism, foreshadowing, and irony
3. Figurative language such as simile, metaphor, hyperbole and personification
4. Inferencing skills to determine author's implications and connotations
5. Summarizing
C. Vocabulary Skills
1. Contextual clues to infer meaning
2. Review of 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 and other online databases
3. Reliability and validity of sources
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. Presentations
4. Discussions analyzing readings and a variety of themes
5. Objective exams and quizzes
6. Summarizing and paraphrasing activities
7. Timed nonfiction reading
8. Silent sustained reading
9. Exercises using online databases
B. Homework
1. Comprehension exercises from the assigned textbook including main idea, details, organizational patterns and fact versus opinion
2. Vocabulary log journal of high frequency vocabulary found in fiction and nonfiction readings
3. Summaries of and reader responses to short stories, novels, and nonfiction articles
4. Journal entries in response to extended 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
Well Read 4: Skills and Strategies for Reading, by Pasternak & Wrangell, Oxford University Press, 2007
Topics for Today 5, 3rd ed., by Smith, Thomson-Heinle, 2004
College Reading 4, by Benz & Schumann, Houghton-Mifflin, 2004
Fiction
ESL 320R Advanced ESL Reading: World Literature Project, by G. Muzzatti, LAD
Inside Out, Outside In, by Holder, Houghton-Mifflin, 2001
Miscellaneous
SRJC Common Reading Experience Selection
Instructor-prepared materials
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