EAP-0500 Reading Academic Texts for Comprehension

Credits: 3
EAP-0500 is the third course in a three-course reading sequence of English for Academic Purposes. In this course, students expand their comprehension skills for reading academic texts that contain prose and non-prose components such as photographs, charts, and graphs. Students develop reading comprehension skills by identifying main ideas and supporting points in academic passages of intermediate complexity. Additionally, students use context and text markers to make inferences to define unfamiliar words and determine the author’s purpose and tone. Students learn to make inferences and use target vocabulary through restatements, summaries, and other reading response passages. Finally, students practice skimming and scanning text for information.

This course is intended for students who are non-native speakers of American English and who did not complete all four years of high school in the United States.

A grade of C or higher is required to successfully complete this course.

Prerequisite(s): Determined by placement methods OR EAP-0100 with a grade of C or higher.

Corequisite(s): EAP-0400 or EAP-0600 recommended.

Formerly: ESL-0105. Students may not receive credit for both ESL-0105 and EAP-0500.

Course Outcomes

Identify the main idea and supporting points in an academic text at the intermediate level.
Locate specific information in an academic text at the intermediate level.
Infer the meaning of unfamiliar words by using context clues.
Use text markers to infer meaning in an academic text at the intermediate level.
Use target vocabulary in a meaningful context.
Summarize the main ideas and supporting points from an academic text at the intermediate level.