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Developmental Language And Communication Skills - Course Descriptions (aest, Engl 105, 106, 107, Read)
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AEST 108- Vocabulary Development - Advanced
This self-paced course helps students who are seeking to improve their word usage by providing techniques and intense practice in using newly acquired vocabulary. Offered: Occasionally. 1 credit.
AEST 109L- Punctuation & Grammar Review
A course for students and professionals who need to review or brush-up on areas of grammar and punctuation. Students learn to write grammatically correct sentences, correctly punctuate sentences, eliminate major and minor sentence errors, and distinguish between clauses, and phrases. Offered: Occasionally. 1 credit.
ENGL 105- English as a Second Language
This course helps students improve their speaking, reading, writing and listening comprehension skills in English. Major topics include English grammar and usage, writing proficiency, reading comprehension, listening and speaking skills. Frequent conferences on specific assignments complement instructional units, exercises and practice tests. Offered: Fall and Spring. 4 credits.
ENGL 105L- Advanced English as a Second Language Lab
Individualized and group instruction in English as a Second Language provides focused practice using structures that ensure clear, correct writing in English. Topics include regular and irregular verbs, verb tenses, articles, prepositions, conjunctions, word order, spelling and vocabulary development. This course is highly recommended for ESL students who are concurrently taking English composition courses at SFCC. Self-paced. Prerequisite: Permission. Offered: Fall and Spring. 2 credits.
Information about SFCC's English as a Second Language Program
(Informacion sobre el programa de ingles como segundo idioma)
ENGL 106- Language Skills
ENGL 106 is designed to develop students' reading, writing, listening and speaking skills through language experience, free writing, drafting, peer response, revising and editing. Students may study the material covered in this course on a self-paced basis through Adult Basic Education. Prerequisite: appropriate placement score. Offered: Occasionally. 4 credits.
ENGL 107- Basic Reading and Writing
This course introduces students to the writing process and helps them increase reading speed and comprehension. Students practice prewriting, drafting, revising and editing material for different audiences and purposes. By reading and writing stories, news articles, poems and plays, students learn spelling, sentence structure, grammar and punctuation, prereading methods, textbook-marking skills and vocabulary. Prerequisite: ENGL 106. Offered: Fall and Spring. 4 credits.
READ 100L - Reading Fluency & Vocabulary Development
This course helps students read faster and understand more of what they read. Using diverse texts, students will practice comprehension and study strategies such as previewing, note-taking, summarizing, distinguishing main ideas from supporting details, and distinguishing between fact and opinion. Students will develop greater reading fluency through speed reading drills. Focused exercises on dictionary use, context clues, and word parts will increase students' working vocabularies. Course objectives include: (i) distinguish among purposes and strategies for leisure reading, study reading, and critical reading; (ii) demonstrate increased reading speed and comprehension; (iii) Choose and apply appropriate pre-reading and review strategies for study reading diverse texts; (iv) use a variety of note-taking strategies for studying fiction and non-fiction texts; (v)distinguish main ideas from supporting details in non-fiction texts; (vi) distinguish fact from opinion; (vii) use context clues, word parts, and dictionary entries to understand new words. Eligible for "PR" grade. Prerequisite: appropriate reading placement score. Offered: Summer, Fall, and Spring. This course is a prerequisite for READ 101L and ENGL 108. 2 credits.
READ 101L - Critical Reading
In this course, students will have the opportunity to work with college-level reading texts while strengthening their comprehension, learning the rudiments of critical analysis, and developing other basic classroom competencies to give them the skills they need to succeed in the general education curriculum. Basic research skills will also be emphasized. Course objectives include: (i) demonstrate comprehension of college-level reading materials; (ii) examine the logic, argumentation, and sources of bias in a text; (iii) apply a variety of learning strategies to new materials, effectively processing and retaining information; (iv) use basic research tools in the library and on the Internet. Eligible for "PR" grade. Prerequisite: READ 100L. Offered: Summer, Fall, and Spring. This course is a prerequisite for ENGL 109. 2 credits.
For more information, please contact Shuli Lamden, (505) 428-1336, shuli.lamden@sfcc.edu.