Course

Upper Intermediate Reading for Students of English as a Second Language (Combined Section)

Faculty
Language, Literature & Performing Arts
Department
English as a Second Language
Course Code
EASL 0264
Credits
3.00
Semester Length
15
Max Class Size
18
Typically Offered
To be determined

Overview

Course Description
This course with its corequisite EASL 0274 is the second in a series of combined reading and writing courses. This course is for students who wish to continue their education, to improve work opportunities, and to meet day to day reading needs. EASL 0264 is an intensive reading course, which emphasizes specific reading skills such as predicting, scanning, skimming, surveying, guessing meaning from context, notetaking and critiquing.
Students will use ideas from the readings to generate ideas for the writing assignments in the corequisite EASL 0274.
Course Content

-                      newspaper: longer news items, columns, opinion editorial

-                      culturally accessible articles from news magazines, eg. Macleans

-                      EASL reading texts

-                      reference materials such as dictionaries and indexes

-                      passages from college texts (for surveying, skimming)

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 arise from lack of familiarity with the structure, lexicon and cultural content of the reading passages.

Means of Assessment

The 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 assessment

Learning Outcomes

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

  1. maintain/improve skills taught in EASL 0165 or EASL 0164.
  2. select appropriate dictionaries, and use them effectively
  3. use the more common context clues, together with knowledge of affixes and roots where applicable, to determine the meaning of an unfamiliar word or phrase.
  4. make predictions prior to reading, survey the reading to verify the predictions, make on-going predictions while reading, and scan ahead to verify such predictions.
  5. scan to find specific information to answer a given question.
  6. skim for main ideas and key details.
  7. identify the organizational patterns of reading materials
  8. make inferences that accord with the writer’s implications
  9. distinguish facts from opinion, and distinguish the writer’s opinion from those of others referred to by the writer.
  10. determine whether the writer has attempted factual and logical support for his own opinions.
Textbook Materials

Textbooks and Materials to be Purchased by Students

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

Requisites

Prerequisites

EASL 0164 or 0165 or instructor permission

Corequisites

EASL 0274

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 0264
There are no applicable transfer credits for this course.

Course Offerings

Winter 2025