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Fall 2024
Sep 19, 2024 |
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| ESL YRDIL - ESL: Read-Discuss Seminar (18) |
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Fall 2024
Learning Objectives: Understand and describe graduate academic text types Identify the purposes of graduate academic reading and select approaches to reading that match purposes Effectively manage and schedule time for reading Effectively manage personal obstacles to reading Understand and apply a variety of reading strategies to improve comprehension and speed Understand and apply a variety of note-taking strategies while reading Compose oral responses to critical thinking questions based on topics and ideas presented in college level texts. Specifically, participants will be able to compose responses that demonstrate the ability to connect ideas between texts, between texts and new ideas, between texts and real-world events, and between texts and personal experience. They will also be able to use ideas from texts to solve problems, hypothesize reactions, and explain real or imagined events Develop oral responses to questions about reading texts that are structurally appropriate according to the norms of academic expression (i.e., position + explanation + illustration with appropriate references to sources). Discuss the academic topics studied using appropriate academic vocabulary in oral formats Perform academic discussion skills in small and large group discussions like expressing opinions, agreeing, disagreeing, negotiating, debating, and working cooperatively in groups Required Materials: None Technical Requirements: None |
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