Emphasizes reading strategies and skills that will prepare English Language Learners for success in college level content-area and English composition courses. Students will learn how to make connections with a variety of authentic texts, practice strategies needed for critical reading, and expand their academic English vocabulary. Students must earn a grade of C or higher before enrolling in ENG-131. This course is non-transferable.
Goals, Topics, and Objectives
ENG-082 is designed to help English Language Learners (ELL) build their vocabulary, fluency, and reading strategies in order to be prepared for reading-dependent college-level classes
- Reading comprehension strategies including connecting, questioning, predicting, paraphrasing 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
- Academic summary
- 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
- Integrate a variety of reading comprehension strategies including, but not limited to, connecting, questioning, predicting, visualizing and summarizing
- Discriminate between topics, main ideas, supporting details within various patterns of organization in authentic written and audio fiction and non-fiction sources
- Create graphic organizers and verbal evidence of ability to read and listen critically and analyze the author’s message, audience, purpose and tone
- Summarize text using academic English
- Create and modify notes from textbook reading
- Illustrate increased vocabulary and idiom knowledge
- Design and facilitate academic presentations and discussions
- Demonstrate college-level American cultural literacy
- Recognize and practice researching credible sources, and/or explain and defend sources to show appropriate use
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, individual and/or group projects, quizzes, tests, and a departmental exit exam.
Instructors should provide students with a wide range of readings (both narrative and expository) including short stories, poems, news articles, and content-area textbook chapters, with ample opportunity for discussion and analysis of author’s purpose, patterns of organization, and strategies.
All students are required to take a departmental exit exam (worth 25%) of the final class grade).
Contact the Faculty Chair for textbook information.