Course

Upper Advanced Reading and Composition for English Language Learners

Important Notice

This course is not active. Please contact Department Chair for more information.

Faculty
Language, Literature & Performing Arts
Department
English Language Learning and Acquisition
Course code
ELLA 0460
Credits
6.00
Semester length
15 weeks
Max class size
18
Method(s) of instruction
Lecture
Lab
Typically offered
To be determined

Overview

Course description
This integrated reading and writing course is for students who wish to upgrade their reading and writing in order to continue their education. The course is designed for advanced level students who need to read academic materials efficiently and critically. Students enrolling in this course should have extensive experience writing paragraphs and short essays, good control of grammar and sentence structure and advanced listening and speaking skills. This course emphasizes reading for study purposes and writing from sources at a first-year university level. Students will read material from texts, academic/professional books and journals and literature. Reading exercises will emphasize understanding how information and ideas are developed and organized, summarizing important ideas and details, and identifying and evaluating arguments. In addition to improving overall expository writing and editing skills, students will develop persuasive essays and research papers. Class activities will help students to use source materials to generate topics, develop thesis statements and provide evidence. Exercises will also help students improve their skills at integrating material from several sources, documenting, summarizing, paraphrasing and quoting sources.
Course content

Reading Skills

  1. To follow the ideas and information in readings
    • Follow written instructions
    • Use pre-reading skills to prepare for a reading task