ELI 080R - Intermediate Reading and Vocabulary

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45 contact hours; considered 3 semester-hours for billing and scheduling purposes
Prerequisites: ACCUPLACER-ESL score of 60-289.
Reading comprehension skills of non-native speakers are developed by identifying main ideas, supporting ideas, tone, and point of view. Students learn to use an English-only dictionary and context clues to determine the meaning of unfamiliar words. Students expand vocabulary knowledge through studying word families, roots, and affixes.