Contra Costa College Course Description and Syllabus ESL-152 – Reading IV - 4 units Semester: Instructor: Office: Office Hours: Office Phone: E-Mail: Class Dates: Holidays: Schedule: Final Exam: ADVISORY: Successful completion of ESL 149 or appropriate score on ESL Placement Test COURSE DESCRIPTION: This course provides instruction in reading skills development for advanced ESL students. Comprehension, vocabulary, and writing are stressed. STUDENT LEARNING OUTCOME: Students will demonstrate the ability to comprehend entry-level college texts. COURSE OBJECTIVES: At the completion of the course, students will be able to: 1. Read and understand predominantly authentic personal, professional, academic, and literary texts in English at the advanced ESL level. 2. Connect the content of reading passages to their own experiences, both orally and in writing. 3. Extract, analyze, and evaluate information in order to respond appropriately to prompts. 4. Recognize and use 5000 word families. 5. Apply reading strategies appropriate to the text and purpose of reading. 6. Write a summary of a text. METHODS OF INSTRUCTION: 1. 2. 3. 4. Text reading and discussion Pair and small-group work Lecture Individual conferences TEXTBOOK AND SUPPLIES: 1. Textbook: 2. Instructor-prepared handouts GRADES AND ASSIGNMENTS: 1. Tests and quizzes 2. Homework and classwork 3. Final Exam 50% 30 % 20% 90-100% = A, 80-89% = B, 70-79% = C, 60-69% = D, Below 60% = F 70% and above = Credit Below 70% = No Credit Course expectations: [Optional – can be modified] I expect you to be present in every class meeting and participate actively in class activities. You must come to class on time and complete your homework before class begins. This is a four-unit course, so you will have to spend approximately eight hours a week doing homework and preparing for class. Attendance policy: If you miss class often, regardless of the reason, you will not learn the material covered by the course. For that reason, there are no excused absences in this course. If you miss more than three class meetings/six hours of class, you may be dropped from the class. When you are late to class, I will add up the number of minutes you miss. Each fifty-minute period will count as an hour of class. If you miss class, contact a classmate or me to find out what the homework is. I expect you to complete the homework even if you miss class. When students are late, unprepared, or distracted, they can’t learn and they don’t let other students learn, so we must all do our part to create a good learning environment. This includes respecting and supporting other members of the class, doing our share of the work in groups, staying on task, speaking English, and listening to the instructor or other students when they are speaking to the class. Telephones and beepers must be turned off and put away before class begins.