Emphasis on comprehension skills, such as identifying main idea, supporting details, and patterns of paragraph development. Features reading short passages of academic materials. Focus on high frequency vocabulary and word forms. Repeatable up to six-credit hours. Designed for high beginning ESL students.
Course emphasizes using standard English grammar in writing paragraphs and short essays.
Introduction of parts of speech. Study of simple and progressive verb tenses and modal auxiliaries. Practice in writing simple and compound sentences, using transitional expressions and punctuation. Exposure to and practice with different modes of writing. Required lab work will supplement classroom work.