College English for ESL Students - Reading and Writing

Duration: 4 weeks for each level

The courses mentioned below are specifically designed to help ESL students improve their reading and writing skills. Revisions of important grammatical points are stressed to improve the students writing skills. The intention of the courses is to prepare the ESL students for college level essay writing.

• ESL Reading and Writing I
  This course is designed to begin to develop ESL students' reading skills using materials adapted for ESL students' needs. Skills practiced in this course include reading to perceive general overall meaning, using context clues, skimming and scanning, identifying topic sentences, and identifying main ideas. The second intent is to develop students' writing skills with emphasis on proper phrase and sentence structure and paragraph development.
  
  
• ESL Reading and Writing II
  The intent of this course is to extend ESL students' basic reading skills using increasingly sophisticated materials. Skills practiced in this course include inference, critical analysis, and evaluation. The second intent is to further develop students' writing skills with emphasis on paragraph and essay development.
  
  
• ESL Reading and Writing III
  The intent of this course is to give students the opportunity to develop their reading skills with authentic reading materials in preparation for academic study. The second intent is to further develop students' writing skills with emphasis on expository academic writing of the type they will have to produce in mainstream college courses.

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