Course Objectives

Upon successfully completing this course, you will have met the following goals:

  1. Goal 1 - Students will be able to comprehend simple authentic texts. Given a short text or short section of a longer text, the student will be able to:
    • Read to answer specific factual questions
    • Read to answer inferential questions
    • Distinguish fact from opinion in the text
    • State the main idea of the text
    • Participate effectively in group discussions of the ideas in the text
    • Restate ideas from the text in their own words
    • Respond to the text in writing
  2. Goal 2 - Students will attain competence in vocabulary usage. While working with authentic texts, the student will be able to:
    • Use an English-English dictionary with increasing speed and accuracy
    • Rely on context clues, both for guessing and in conjunction with dictionary usage
    • Expand vocabulary by learning synonyms
    • Expand vocabulary by using suffixes to change word forms