Develops high-intermediate-level college-preparatory reading and study skills for non-native English speakers. Satisfactory completion of this course qualifies students for ELL-182. This course does not transfer nor count toward degree graduation requirements.
Goals, Topics, and Objectives
ELI-106R is designed to help English Language Learners (ELL) attain high-intermediate-level reading, listening, and speaking skills in order to understand more clearly and communicate more effectively in English.
- Reading comprehension strategies including connecting, questioning, predicting, visualizing, and summarizing
- Locating and identifying topics, main ideas, supporting details and patterns of organization in authentic written and audio sources
- Author’s or speaker’s message, audience, purpose and tone
- Textbook reading strategies, guided note taking and active learning strategies with written and audio sources
- Vocabulary study and idioms
- Academic discussion and presentation skills
- American cultural literacy
- Source credibility
- Apply a variety of reading comprehension strategies including, but not limited to, connecting, questioning, predicting, visualizing, paraphrasing and summarizing
- Discriminate between topics, main ideas, supporting details within various patterns of organization in authentic written and audio fiction and non-fiction sources
- Show written and verbal evidence of ability to read and listen critically and analyze the author’s message, audience, purpose and tone
- Show evidence of the ability to use a range of study skills in an American classroom
- Illustrate increased vocabulary and idiom knowledge
- Design and facilitate academic presentations and discussions
- Demonstrate American cultural literacy
- Recognize and practice researching credible sources
Assessment and Requirements
Assessment of academic achievement will be identified and implemented by the class instructor. Methods will include, but not be limited to, assignments, presentations, individual and/or group projects, quizzes, tests, and a final exam.
In order to progress to the next level, students must:
- Actively participate in at least 80% of all class sessions
- Average 75% or higher on all assignments, presentations, projects, quizzes, and tests
- Take a final exam (worth 25% of the final class grade)
Contact the Faculty Chair for textbook information.