This course is designed to help students view reading as a thinking process. Students are taught to make connections between what they read in text and their own prior knowledge of the world. They are encouraged to develop a systematic method of thinking about and approaching text. The international section emphasizes structure and arguments in academic texts.

This course covers the basic components of good writing techniques and strategies, grammar and mechanics, style, sentence structure, and paragraph and essay organization. The companion course is ESLA 16300 Advanced Grammar Review.

Development of reading comprehension through the use of articles and stories. Students learn to read for accurate, literal comprehension, make reasonable inferences, and identify main ideas and detail. Writing practice includes grammar, sentence construction, paragraphing, punctuation, and formatting. Study skills include the use of dictionaries.

Development of the ability to communicate in English. Students practice pronunciation, intonation, and conversation through dialogs, group discussion, and presentations on simple topics.

Further development of reading comprehension through nonfiction. Students practice reading for accurate comprehension, making reasonable inferences, and identifying main ideas and details. Writing practice includes punctuation, sentence construction, paragraphing, and summarizing.

Advanced Reading Writing and Grammar is a bridge course in which students acquire the reading and writing skills to succeed in college transferable composition courses. Students will develop their writing and critical thinking skills, learn how to analyze texts, and they will be exposed to different types of readings including fiction and non-fiction.

Lab. Supports development of reading comprehension through the use of articles and stories. Students learn to read for accurate, literal comprehension, make reasonable inferences, and identify main ideas and detail. Writing practice includes grammar, sentence construction, paragraphing, punctuation, and formatting. Study skills include the use of dictionaries.

Lab. Supports development of the ability to communicate in English. Students practice pronunciation, intonation, and conversation through dialogs, group discussion, and presentations on simple topics.

Lab. Supports further development of reading comprehension through nonfiction. Students practice reading for accurate comprehension, making reasonable inferences, and identifying main ideas and details. Writing practice includes punctuation, sentence construction, paragraphing, and summarizing

Lab. Supports Advanced Reading Writing and Grammar

This course provides practice in the comprehension of academic lectures, including subject vocabulary, lecture explanation/argument forms, spoken discourse conventions and effective notetaking strategies. A combination of prepared materials and live lectures is used.

This course provides practice in oral presentation for academic purposes (reports, panels, debates, discussion based on reading, and so forth). Emphasis is placed on clear pronunciation; formal, idiomatic speech; effective stress and intonation; use of visual aids; and presentation techniques.

This course provides an intensive overview of verb tense and aspect, modals, passives, gerunds and infinitives, adjective clauses, adverbial clauses, noun clauses and conditional sentences.

One focus of this course is devoted to an intensive, in-depth review of North American culture. The second includes films and performances of short plays that explore cultural themes, as well as provides spoken practice of Standard American speech patterns.