ESL 63 - Effective Reading for ESL Students - 4.0 units - 6 hours lecture Prerequisite: One semester of ESL 147AB and qualification through the ESL Department reading assessment process. Grading: letter grade or credit/no credit College-level ESL reading designed to improve student ability to comprehend written English. Focuses on using lexical and grammatical clues to derive sentence meaning, developing vocabulary, extracting the main ideas, extrapolating information, drawing conclusions, recognizing basic written discourse conventions, interpreting charts, timelines and tables and interacting with text through writing. Application primarily to academic prose and fiction (short stories). Transfer Status: Transferable to CSU, see counselor for limitations.

ESL 65 - College Reading/Listening for ESL Students - 4.0 units - 6 hours lecture Prerequisite: One semester of ESL 147AB and qualification through the ESL Department reading assessment process; or ESL 63. Grading: letter grade or credit/no credit College-level ESL power reading and listening. Emphasizes strategies for reading and lecture comprehension, enhancement of critical reading, listening and notetaking, the use of context, stems, affixes and dictionary to determine word meanings and interacting with text through writing. Intensive and extensive application primarily to academic oral and written text and to fiction (a novel). (Part of a sequence.) Transfer Status: Transferable to CSU, see counselor for limitations.

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