Course

Lower Intermediate Reading for students of EASL (combined section)

Faculty
Language, Literature & Performing Arts
Department
English as a Second Language
Course Code
EASL 0164
Credits
3.00
Semester Length
15
Max Class Size
18
Typically Offered
To be determined

Overview

Course Description
This course with its corequisite EASL 0174 is the first in a series of combined reading and writing courses, for students who wish to upgrade their reading in order to continue their education, improve employment opportunities and meet day to day reading needs. EASL 0164 is an extensive reading course for the student who has learned some grammar and vocabulary and who can read simplified EASL material, but who has little experience reading in English without translation.

This course emphasizes reading for main ideas and using new vocabulary strategies. There are extensive reading assignments to generate ideas for short compositions written in the corequisite course EASL 0174.
Course Content

-                      EASL materials such as simplified versions of famous books, structured readers

-                      Westcoast Reader

-                      heavily illustrated magazines such as National Geographic and Life

-                      newspaper headlines, picture-captions and short items (possibly adapted for easier comprehension)

-                      pleasure readings, such as pieces brought in by the students themselves; short fiction in EASL

-                      various English-only dictionaries.

Learning Activities

The instructor will facilitate, observe and evaluate students’ development of reading ability.  Whole and small group instruction will be combined with individual assistance and student-directed learning.  Students will receive assistance with reading difficulties that rise from lack of familiarity with the structure, lexicon and cultural content of the reading passages.

Means of Assessment

This course is a college preparatory course and students will be marked on a MASTERY basis.  Mastery will be granted to students who achieve over 70% on a series of in-class and out-of-class assessments.

Learning Outcomes

Within relevant educational, employment and social contexts, students who master this course will be able to:

  1. read continuously materials in course content, and other student-selected materials without recourse to translation or to the dictionary, and develop the ability to skip unfamiliar words and expressions not necessary for the comprehension of overall reading of the text.
  2. read continuously materials in course content and other student selected readings without recourse to translation or to the dictionary, and develop skills in guessing from context the approximate meaning of unfamiliar words and expressions necessary for comprehension of overall reading of the text.
  3. improve reading rate, without dropping comprehension rate below 80%, on timed readings.
  4. locate main ideas in short readings.
  5. locate main ideas in individual paragraphs within short readings.
  6. re-tell, in their own words, a story they have read.
  7. use an English-English dictionary, without a bilingual dictionary, to rapidly locate a target word.
  8. select, from several definitions, the one most appropriate to the context in which the word was encountered.
Textbook Materials

Textbooks and Materials to be Purchased by Students

Student may be required to purchase a textbook to be determined by the instructor.

Requisites

Prerequisites

(EASL 0144 and 0154) or (EASL 0145 and 0155) or (EASL 0135) or (Instructor permission)

Corequisites

EASL 0174

Equivalencies

No equivalent courses.

Course Guidelines

Course Guidelines for previous years are viewable by selecting the version desired. If you took this course and do not see a listing for the starting semester / year of the course, consider the previous version as the applicable version.

(Current)

Course Transfers

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Institution Transfer Details for EASL 0164
There are no applicable transfer credits for this course.

Course Offerings

Winter 2025