It helps students develop academic vocabulary and provide practice in pronunciation and critical reading skills, essential for reading college textbooks and short stories. It provides further practice in acquiring academic vocabulary and critical reading skills, essential for reading literature and college textbooks. It provides practice in analytical and critical reading of college level materials. Attention is also given to pronunciation of multi-syllable words and grammatical use. This course concentrates on academic, technical words derived primarily from Latin and Greek.
Students learn to analyze words and the sounds.
The words are studied in reading and listening contexts. Students use the vocabulary words in discursive writing by creating paragraphs and short narratives. This course provides an in-depth study of the sounds and spelling of American English. The study of intonation, stress and rhythm patterns is also included as it pertains to spelling. The course emphasis is on self-expression, listening comprehension and vocabulary conducive to carrying on critical daily activities in American Society.