ESL 52B - Intermediate Reading and Vocabulary Building

4 units
5 hours lecture
Prerequisite: ESL 52A with a minimum grade of C or qualification by assessment
Credit, degree applicable
This is an intermediate level course designed to teach appropriate reading skills, such as the ability to make inferences, draw conclusions, understand the meaning of vocabulary words in context through word analysis and contextual clues, and determine the main idea from a passage. Students read from a variety of sources, including newspapers, essays, short stories, and novels. Students also increase their academic vocabulary through vocabulary building activities.