Upper Intermediate Reading for Students of English as a Second Language (Combined Section)
Overview
Students will use ideas from the readings to generate ideas for the writing assignments in the corequisite EASL 0274.
- 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)
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.
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
Within relevant educational, employment and social context, students who master this course will be able to:
- maintain/improve skills taught in EASL 0165 or EASL 0164.
- select appropriate dictionaries, and use them effectively
- 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.
- 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.
- scan to find specific information to answer a given question.
- skim for main ideas and key details.
- identify the organizational patterns of reading materials
- make inferences that accord with the writer’s implications
- distinguish facts from opinion, and distinguish the writer’s opinion from those of others referred to by the writer.
- determine whether the writer has attempted factual and logical support for his own opinions.
Textbooks and Materials to be Purchased by Students
Students may be required to purchase a textbook to be determined by the instructor.
Requisites
Course Guidelines
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Course Transfers
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| Institution | Transfer details for EASL 0264 | |
|---|---|---|
| There are no applicable transfer credits for this course. | ||