EAP 050 - Connect I: Reading and Writing

Credits: 9
Variable Credit Course: No

Lecture Hours: 99
Lab Hours: 0
Worksite/Clinical Hours: 0
Other Hours (LIA/Internships): 0

Course Description: An intensive course for English language learners with an emphasis on sentence structure, academic vocabulary development, grammar skills, and reading strategies that will prepare students for EAP 60.

Prerequisite: Appropriate placement test score or instructor permission.
Meets FQE Requirement: No
Integrative Experience Requirement: No

Student Learning Outcomes

Produce simple sentences that use subjects, verbs, objects, complements, and prepositional phrases.
Use simple tenses to write about past, present, and future events using both regular and irregular verbs.
Use level-appropriate vocabulary.
Identify and use parts of speech including nouns, pronouns, verbs, adverbs, adjectives, prepositions, and conjunctions.
Recognize count and non-count nouns; articles; coordinating conjunctions; and modals of permission.
Practice subject-verb agreement.
Revise sentences through peer revision, or tutor visits, or instructor feedback.
Read texts using appropriate reading strategies or Reading Apprenticeship Routines from Reading for Understanding by Schoenbach, Greenleaf, and Murphy (2012).
Communicate how power, privilege, equity, and empathy affect our daily lives by engaging with culturally and linguistically diverse texts and media.

Course Contents

Sentence Structure
Parts of speech
Simple verb tenses
Spelling and level-appropriate academic vocabulary
Revising
Reading

Instructional Units: 9