EL510:
Academic Reading I (4 units, 0 credits)
Chiyeko Kristin Takayoshi, Adjunct Instructor in ESL
Spring 2006 Pasadena
DESCRIPTION:
This Advanced reading course is
designed to combine the content of a specified Individualized Distance Learning
(IDL) course with a presentation of skills and strategies necessary for
developing competency in academic research. Reading skills (reading strategies
along with reading for comprehension) are emphasized, while focusing on the
content of the IDL course.
LEARNING OUTCOMES:
• Review and reinforce learning outcomes in
Intermediate and High-Intermediate levels
• Improve reading speed and comprehension
• Gain new reading strategies
• Skimming
• Scanning
• Reading to Evaluate (fact from opinion,
bias, inferences, purpose, tone, figurative language)
• Active reading strategies and study skills
• Understand how to read
for research
• Synthesizing information in writing
assignments
COURSE FORMAT:
This course will meet for two-hour
sessions twice weekly for ten weeks.
Class time will be spent building reading, comprehension, and research
skills through a variety of individual and group activities.
REQUIRED READING:Students will read books that are assigned in the lDL
course, which will vary from term to term.
Clinton, J. Robert. Reading on the Run:
Continuum Reading Concepts. Barnabas Publishers, 1997.
Langan, John. Ten Steps to Improving College Reading Skills. (4th ed.)
Townsend Press, 2003.
RECOMMENDED READING:
Dodd, Debbie. Dictionary of Theological Terms
in Simplified English. Evangelism and Missions Information Service (EMIS),
2003.
Pierson, Cheri. Dictionary of Theological Terms in Simplified English:
Student Workbook. Evangelism and Missions Information Service (EMIS), 2003.
ASSIGNMENTS:
Students will do a minimum of 10
reading activities with the purpose of developing particular reading skills
including: skimming and scanning, extracting information, reading for
comprehension, and drawing inferences in their IDL course.
PREREQUISITES: Students must be concurrently registered in a
specified IDL course.
RELATIONSHIP TO CURRICULUM: Meets partial requirements to advance
from the ESL Program.
FINAL EXAM: ESL Exit Exam.