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Sep 25, 2024
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OPIE D706 - Beefing Up Your Academic Vocabulary
This course is designed to engage students in improving their vocabulary and using it accurately and fluently for academic purposes, i.e. understanding lectures, comprehending assigned readings, participating in class discussions, and writing academic papers. The course focuses on expanding the learner’s core knowledge of vocabulary from the general service and academic word lists as well as strengthening the student’s ability to effectively ascertain meaning by employing a variety of vocabulary skills, e.g. determining meaning from context, analysis of word parts and word forms, developing facility in effectively using a thesaurus and collegiate English-English dictionaries.
Requisites: Course is developmental
PERMISSION REQUIRED
Paper TOEFL: 451 minimum
IBT: 46 minimum
Composition: 36 minimum
Credit Hours: 4
Repeat/Retake Information: May be repeated for a maximum of 24.0 hours.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 4.0 lecture
Grades: Eligible Grades: ,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I
Learning Outcomes: - Student demonstrates s/he has learned targeted basic vocabulary by giving / identifying synonyms or definitions, using the vocabulary appropriately, and responding correctly to comprehension questions.
- Student develops target vocabulary skills: recognition of word form and function, comprehension and production of target vocabulary, and ability to determine meanings of unfamiliar words using context clues.
- Student recognizes word forms according to derivational endings and recognizes the function of a word according to its use in a phrase, a clause, or a sentence.
- Student will demonstrate appropriate use of target vocabulary in a variety of tasks, including paraphrasing, summarizing, participating in class discussion, making oral reports, and in writing.
- Student will demonstrate knowledge of and ability to accurately use target collocations, lexical derivatives, synonyms, and antonyms.
- Student will demonstrate recognition and comprehension of target vocabulary in a variety of academic contexts: authentic readings, lectures, graphs, and charts.
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