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Course Syllabus

ESL 0441 Level 2 Reading

  • Division: Humanities
  • Department: English/Second Language
  • Credit/Time Requirement: Credit: 1.5; Lecture: 3; Lab: 0
  • Prerequisites: Placement in ESL 0441 through the department
  • Semesters Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer
  • Semester Approved: Spring 2021
  • Five-Year Review Semester: Fall 2025
  • End Semester: Fall 2026
  • Optimum Class Size: 10
  • Maximum Class Size: 20

Course Description

This course is designed to develop reading skills and vocabulary at the intermediate level. Students will read selections from the textbook and other assigned readings. They will demonstrate reading comprehension by participation in class activities and discussions and through short answer essay and objective exams.

Justification

The ESL Department at Snow College houses the intensive ESL program which is accredited through the American Association of Intensive English Programs (AAIEP).The four-level program provides instruction for students at Levels 1, 2, 3, and 4 (elementary through exiting levels). This course helps students prepare for the more difficult readings used at advanced levels.

Student Learning Outcomes

  1. Students will develop confidence to do basic academic reading in English. They will know how to use reading strategies to improve speed and comprehension. They will be able to use context to arrive at approximate meanings for unfamiliar words and increase their functional English vocabulary by learning to recognize and work with the meanings of many English language roots, suffixes, and affixes.

Course Content

Students will be assigned readings from magazines, newspapers and relevant texts that include various cultural, social, and political topics. This course will focus on improving the students' English vocabulary. Students will practice reading charts, graphs, maps, advertisements, classified ads, and indexes. Students will work on the skills of inference and prediction of outcome.