This course integrates the four language skills: listening, speaking, reading, and writing while developing student’s vocabulary and grammatical structures. This course may be offered in either of the following modes: in-person, distance, hybrid, or online.

Analysis of selected readings such as stories, essays, fiction, poetry, and drama and practice in writing with attention given as needed to grammar and idiomatic expressions.

This course develops proficiency in writing. The goal is to enable the students to understand and practice the principles of reasoning by means of the introduction to expository modes and techniques of organization. Topics covered include description, narration, definition, example, induction, and others.

An examination of "children's literature" as literature, the course combines a study of representative traditional works, fantasy, and realism with literary criticism.