ESL 713 Syllabus

Course Syllabus: ESL 707, Academic Intermediate Course Overview.docx

Meet Your Instructor:  Esmeralda Godoy

Course Description: Welcome all to AESL. This is the fourth course of the academic ESL track program developing academic skills through reading two-page authentic texts, writing expository essays, grammar, speaking, and listening skills with short lectures or speeches on familiar and academic topics. Five high school elective credits may be granted if you pass the course successfully. This is an Open Entry/Open Exit class.

Textbook Information: Pathway 3: Reading, Writing and Critical Thinking 3 (PA)

By Mari Vargo and Laurie Blass, Keith S. Folse, Series Consultant

ISBN: 978-1-133-31710-4

Student Learning Objectives: Upon Completion of this course, students will be able to

• Identify text type, audience, and purpose by reading titles, subtitles, introductions, charts, and graphics in a two-page authentic text.
• Write an expository essay with multiple paragraphs with a thesis, supporting detarils, and a conclusion, referring to the ideas of others.
• Determine the meaning of idioms in figurative language in clear contexts.
• Choose and use the appropriate definition among multiple definitions in an English learners’ dictionary of words with clear differences between meanings.
• Use academic search engines to research sources for writing support.