Official Course Outline

Date: 03/12/03

1. TITLE: READING 863: Reading for Non-Native Speakers III

Units: 3.0 units

Hours: Three class hours per week

Recommended: ESL background and completion of READ 862 or ESOL 820 or ESOL 821/822 or placement in ESOL 830 as indicated by ESL placement test and other measures as necessary.

2. COURSE CLASSIFICATION
Credit course NOT applicable for the Associate Degree

3. CATALOG DESCRIPTION:
Reading 863 is an intermediate level reading course designed for non-native speakers of English to improve English pronunciation, vocabulary, and reading comprehension. Assignments are tailored to students' individual needs.

4. OVERALL AIMS:
This intermediate reading for non-native speakers course, the third in a sequence of four, is intended to supplement the instruction students are receiving in their ESOL courses.

5. SPECIFIC INSTRUCTIONAL OBJECTIVES:
1. Improve pronunciation of English

2. Strengthen oral reading

3. Develop American dictionary proficiency

4. Broaden vocabulary

5. Increase recognition and use of English sentence structures and idioms

6. Increase comprehension

7. Learn strategies to increase retention

6. COURSE CONTENT:
1. Learn the rules of pronunciation including phonics, syllabication and stress

2. Apply and understand prefixes, roots, and suffixes

3. Distinguish between different parts of speech

4. Recognizing different grammatical structures for the purpose of understanding relationships between ideas

5. Continued vocabulary expansion

6. Comprehend increasingly complex texts

7. Be exposed to American English idiom

8. Practice strategies to improve retention

7. METHODS OF INSTRUCTION:
Lecture, assigned readings and exercises, class participation, group work, and texts

8. SUGGESTED TEXT(S):
Intermediate ESL reading texts:

Reading Power by Mekulecky & Jeffries

For Your Information, Book 2, by Blanchard & Root

Issues of Today by Smith & Mare

Discovering Fiction, a Reader of American Short Stories, Level 1, by Kay & Gelshenan

Rethinking America, Book 2, Sokolik

9. EVALUATION OF STUDENT PERFORMANCE:
Letter grade or credit/no credit option. Students will be evaluated using multiple methods of measure such as quizzes, homework, and oral performance.