Competency skills will be developed and practiced in each of the ESOL courses through learning
the processes of reading, writing, researching, and presenting ideas in English.
Reading short
academic articles, summarizing information, taking notes, asking questions, gathering ideas,
discussing the writing process, organizing projects, researching topics, building vocabulary,
formulating a topic sentence, outlining, editing, revising, rewriting, orally presenting, and sharing
quality projects and essays; are all part of the academic process.