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Jul 03, 2025
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IE 021 Intensive English Reading & Writing 2 (10 credits)
Course Description
Reading & Writing 2 is an English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) course for students who need to develop intermediate English language skills. Students will study intermediate English language reading and writing concepts. Students must reach 80% competency overall in order to pass to the next level.
Course Content
A. Sentence Structure B. Paragraph Structure C. Essay Structure D. Reading Comprehension Strategies E. Vocabulary Strategies
Student Outcomes
Upon completion of the course, students will be able to perform the following outcomes at an intermediate language level:
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Apply pre- and post-writing strategies to develop academic paragraphs.
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Write academic paragraphs and a multi-paragraph essay that demonstrate unity, coherence, focus and clarity.
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Compose a variety of sentences that include simple, compound, complex and compound-complex structures.
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Summarize, quote from and respond to various texts.
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Employ strategies to infer the meaning of unfamiliar vocabulary and phrases.
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Use a range of reading strategies with various texts.
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Recognize main ideas, supporting ideas, details, definitions and examples within texts.
Degree Outcomes
Program Outcome 1: Apply college-ready English language skills in a U.S. higher education environment.
Program Outcome 2: Use academic skills integral to success in a U. S. higher education environment.
Effective Communication: Graduates will be able to craft and exchange ideas and information in a variety of situations, in response to audience, context, purpose, and motivation.
Information Literacy: Graduates will be critical users, creators, and disseminators of information by examining how information is created, valued, and influenced by power and privilege.
Lecture Contact Hours 100
Lab Contact Hours 0
Clinical Contact Hours 0
Total Contact Hours 100
Potential Methods
Paragraphs Essays Individual/Group project Tests, quizzes, and exams Class discussion Collaborative assignment Logs Self-assessment Peer assessment Instructor observation
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