This course seeks to prepare students for college level academic or workforce study by accomplishing the following objectives:

• introducing reading skills including word forms, synonyms and antonyms and finding the main idea

• building vocabulary including acquisition of estimated vocabulary of 500-1,000 words

• increasing awareness of spelling, dictionary usage and interpreting the author's purpose

• carrying out an extensive reading program through the use of graded readers
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• developing elementary critical reading skills: learning to recognize support for a thesis in a text.

Beginning Writing ESOL 0343
A course devoted to expanding vocabulary, developing pronunciation skills, and simple spelling. Instruction is individualized.

This course seeks to prepare students for college level academic or workforce study by accomplishing the following objectives:

• Introducing students to basic English rules of capitalization, punctuation, and paragraph format.

• Introducing students to various common sentence patterns, from simple sentences to the basics of co-ordination and subordination.

• Most importantly, building basic knowledge of paragraph organization with emphasis on developing topic sentences, support, concluding sentences and the use of basic transitions.

Grammar ESOL 0344
An introduction to basic English grammar. Emphasis is placed on correct verb forms, parts of speech, sentence order, capitalization, and punctuation.

This course seeks to prepare students for college level academic or workforce study by accomplishing the following objectives:

• Introducing students to the essential elements of grammar;

• Strengthening students' abilities to produce the new grammatical structures in a variety of communicative contexts.

Beginning Conversation ESOL 0341
A course developing conversational skills in simple English with emphasis on vocabulary and grammatical structures used in day-to-day living. Vocabulary, pronunciation, simple sentence structure, and intonation patterns are stressed.

ESOL 0340, Beginning Conversation, seeks to prepare students for college classes and speaking assignments in general by accomplishing the following objectives:

• Developing students' conversational skills through the use of vocabulary and grammatical structures used in day-to-day living.

• Introducing students to real life situations through the use of in-class presentations and role plays.

• Developing students' listening comprehension skills through exposure to recorded and teacher-generated listening comprehension material.

Level 2

Intermediate Reading ESOL 0346
A continuation of ESOL 0342, this course develops reading skills and comprehension of more difficult reading selections.

This course seeks to prepare students for college level academic or workforce study by accomplishing the following objectives:

• developing reading skills and strategies such as understanding main ideas, supporting facts, and graphics in texts

• acquisition of 1000-1500 new vocabulary words

• improving fluency in reading through the use of extensive reading texts

• developing critical thinking skills

Intermediate Writing ESOL 0347
A continuation of ESOL 0343, this course develops vocabulary skills, both written and oral. Students learn to write short, simple paragraphs.

This course seeks to prepare students for continuation into ESOL 0351 and ultimately for college level academic or workforce study by accomplishing the following objectives:

• Strengthening student awareness of the basic principles of organization of the single-paragraph composition, focusing especially on the role of the topic sentence, examples, details, and the conclusion.

• Strengthening student awareness of the nature of the writing process, focusing especially on the areas of effective prewriting, composing, revising, and editing.

• Strengthening students’ skills in the basic principles of sentence combination, focusing especially on the role of subordinating and coordinating conjunctions.

Intermediate Grammar ESOL 0348
A continuation of ESOL 0344, this course reviews the basic structures of English grammar and develops the production of complex English sentences.
This course seeks to prepare students for college level academic or workforce study by accomplishing the following objectives:

• Building on the syntactic knowledge that students have gained in previous study of
English grammar while introducing more advanced structures .

• Strengthening student's abilities to produce the new grammatical structures in a variety of communicative contexts.

Intermediate Conversation ESOL 0345
A continuation of ESOL 0341, this course places emphasis on idiomatic speech, everyday vocabulary development, and listening comprehension.

This course seeks to prepare students for college level academic or workforce study by advancing them from high beginning to high intermediate level in the following English language skills:

• listening comprehension

• oral fluency

• active vocabulary

• pronunciation

Level 3

Advanced Intermediate Reading ESOL 0350
A continuation of ESOL 0346. This course is designed to further develop reading comprehension skills and expand vocabulary. This course provides practice in skills such as identifying main ideas and supporting details, determining the sequence of events, using context clues, and drawing conclusions.

This course seeks to prepare students for college level academic or workforce study by accomplishing the following objectives:

• to help students read more effectively in English by teaching them a variety of reading skills and strategies which may include skimming, scanning summarizing, finding the main idea and supporting details, discovering word meanings (general as well as specific vocabulary words) through context clues, and drawing conclusions.

• to introduce students to a vocabulary of approximately 1,500-2,000 words, and help students increase their vocabulary through knowledge and understanding of word forms, prefixes and suffixes, and synonyms and antonyms

• to expose students to a variety of reading sources which may include graded readers, computer reading software, Internet sites aimed at general reading/vocabulary development, as well as extensive reading of authentic English text through periodicals and books.

• to help students improve their critical thinking skills by analyzing various facets of their readings including understanding the author's purpose and how the rhetorical styles are used in relation to this purpose.

Advanced Intermediate Writing ESOL 0351
A continuation of ESOL 0347. This course concentrates on the development of writing skills using controlled composition and production of the five-paragraph essay.

This course seeks to prepare students for continuation into ESOL 0354 and ultimately for college composition courses and academic writing in general by accomplishing the following objectives:

• Strengthening students' awareness of the basic notions of paragraph development, particularly the role of the topic sentence and the internal logical development of the paragraph.

• Introducing to students the basic principles of the multi-paragraph composition, focusing especially on the role of the introductory and concluding paragraphs, drafting an effective thesis statement,, and organizing the composition according to a clear logical pattern.

• Improving students' sentence combination skills, especially in the area of the strategy and techniques of coordination within compound sentences and within simple complex sentences

• Increasing student awareness of the nature of the writing process, especially in the area of effective topic construction and in the necessity and techniques of revision and editing.

Grammar ESOL 0352
A continuation of ESOL 0348. This course provides a review of essential grammatical and structural features while introducing their finer points. Emphasis is placed on compound and complex sentence structures and is designed to lead students toward active mastery of the patterns and principles of formal written English.

This course seeks to prepare students for college level academic or workforce study by accomplishing the following objectives:

• Building on the syntactic knowledge that students have gained in previous study of English grammar while introducing more advanced structures as well as the finer nuances involving tense and aspect of English verbs; •

• Strengthening students' abilities to produce the new grammatical structures in a variety of communicative contexts.

Conversation ESOL 0349
A continuation of ESOL 0345. This course is designed to further develop conversational skills by incorporating more complicated vocabulary and grammatical structures.
Students are also required to present oral reports at various times during the semester.

After taking this course, the student should:

1. Be able to get the gist, supporting ideas, and some inferences from conversations and talks dealing with workforce and academic topics.

2. Exhibit familiarity with common academic and workforce vocabulary.

3. Exhibit familiarity with English pronunciation and most stress and intonation patterns.

4. Be able to present individual, pair, group, and panel presentations on researched topics.

5. Be able to be generally understood by someone who has some contact with non-native speakers of English.

6. Be able to take notes on short workforce and academic topics.

Level 4

Advanced Reading, ESOL 0353
A continuation of ESOL 0350. This course is designed to further develop critical reading skills for college-bound students. The skills gained in ESOL 0350 are further refined to guide students towards mastery of deduction, inference and figurative language.

This course seeks to prepare students for college level academic or workforce study by accomplishing the following objectives:

• Enable students to read moderate-length texts (2-3,000 words) and decode rhetorical structures such as causation, comparison & contrast, definition, classification, and favored vs. unfavored opinions;

• Give students the opportunity to read extensively from authentic academic sources as well as high-school-level literature and popular publications

• Introduce students to a vocabulary of approximately 2,000-3,000 words, taken largely from authentic academic English sources;

• develop students’ skills in critical research, using the Internet and college libraries.

Advanced Composition, ESOL 0354
A continuation of ESOL 0352. This course provides a review of both essential and finer points of the grammatical structural features of formal written English. Emphasis is placed on active production and error analysis of standard English.

This course seeks to prepare students for college composition courses and academic writing in general by accomplishing the following objectives:

• Strengthening students' awareness of the basic notions of paragraph development, particularly the role of the topic sentence and the internal logical development of the paragraph.

• Introducing to students the basic principles of the multi-paragraph composition, focusing especially on the role of the introductory and concluding paragraphs, drafting an effective thesis statement,, and organizing the composition according to a clear logical pattern.

• Honing students' sentence combination skills, especially in the area of the strategy and techniques of subordination within complex sentences.

• Increasing student awareness of the nature of the writing process, especially in the area of effective topic construction and in the necessity and techniques of revision and editing.

Advanced Grammar, ESOL 0355
A continuation of ESOL 0352. This course provides a review of both essential and finer points of the grammatical structural features of formal written English. Emphasis is placed on active production and error analysis of standard English.

This course seeks to prepare students for college level academic or workforce study by accomplishing the following objectives:

• Building on the syntactic knowledge that students have gained in previous study of English grammar while introducing more advanced structures as well as the finer nuances involving tense and aspect of English verbs; •

• Strengthening students' abilities to produce the new grammatical structures in a variety of communicative contexts.

Advanced Conversation, ESOL 0356
A continuation of ESOL 0349. This course is designed to encourage students’ use of high-level grammatical structures and vocabulary skills. Students are required to present an oral book report, and oral report of a personal, off-campus interview, and an oral research report

This course seeks to prepare students for college level academic or workforce study by accomplishing the following objectives:

• Students are able to make inferences regarding complex ideas.

• Students continue to refine their stress and intonation skills.

• Students continue to refine note-taking skills, and are able to use their notes to summarize in both oral and written form.

• Students are able to function in every day academic interactions