Course Number: ESL070
Course Title: Integrated English for ESL Students I
STUDENT LEARNING OUTCOMES
General
The course provides students with intensive classroom instruction to build up
their English skills where by they can enroll in the next level of integrated
English, the Intensive English Program, or regular academic degree classes.
Weekly conferencing with instructors in Reading and Writing will assist students
in gathering increased instructor assistance in area-specific weaknesses.
Students will be introduced to all English communication skills in a variety of
integrated situations encouraging expanding their vocabulary, structure usage,
reading skills, and listening and speaking skills, and critical thinking skills.
Specific
Reading
The
student will be able to do the following with 80% accuracy:
* use a dictionary to locate and employ pronunciation key
* use a dictionary to locate word definition and part of
speech
* locate information in reading passages
* differentiate between fact and opinion
* answer questions of fact in reading passages
* answer questions of inference
* recall information from reading passages
* identify the main idea in reading passages and
distinguish from supporting details
* discuss reactions to written text
* define the following writing styles: Descriptive,
Narrative, and Expository (comparative and sequential)
* sequentially order the events of a story
* identify and define title, author
* define plot and setting
* identify setting in reading passages
* define prefix and begin identifying prefixes (re-, in-,
im-, il-, ir-)
* define and begin identifying suffixes (-er, -ly, -logy,
-ist, -or-, -y)
* define and begin identifying root words (-port, -gram,
-graph)
* extract vocabulary using contextual clues and decoding
skills
* use content vocabulary across the curriculum in verbal
form
* apply English grammar rules to information found in
reading passages, specifically distinguish between complete
subject
and complete predicate, and identify adverb, adjective, and noun
clauses)
* identify 5 basic sentence patterns (SV, SVC, SVO, SVOI,
SVOC)
* identify and define 7 basic parts of speech (noun,
verb, adjective, adverb, preposition, conjunction: and
pronouns-
subject, object, possessive, and indefinite)
* identify and define modals of permission and advice
* identify and define declarative, imperative,
interrogative and exclamatory sentences
* develop analytic skills utilizing a writing journal
Writing
The student will be able to do the following with 80% accuracy:
* use the present progressive, simple present, simple
past, and future tenses
* form yes/no and wh-questions in the above tenses
* use there + be in simple present, simple past, and
future tenses
* use adverbs of frequency and time appropriately
* use modals to express ability, possibility, and need
in the present tense
* use subject, object, possessive, and indefinite
pronouns
* use count and non-count nouns and their appropriate
quantifiers
* use comparative and superlative word forms and
phrases
* use too, very, and so that in comparisons
* use nouns, and adjectives of nationality, language,
and religion
* use forms of other, another, others
* end of sentence punctuation
* capitalization at beginning of sentences, for proper
nouns, abbreviations
* commas in series, after adverbials of time and place,
addresses, dates
* Write simple, and compound sentences
* Write sentences in the following discourse
styles-description in present, past, and future, time; description
using
there + be; narration in the past; comparison; sequence
* Apply the writing process in writing a descriptive and
narrative paragraph with a topic sentence, 4 to 6 sentences,
and a concluding
statement
* Write mini-research projects related to short stories
read in class
Listening & Speaking
Students will practice , both orally and in written form, the
following aural and oral skills:
* complete a cloze-type transcription with at least
75% accuracy
* retell the substance of a monologue or reading
passage in their own words with fewer than five grammatical
mistakes
* answer questions of fact and inference with at least
75% accuracy
* state, in writing , the general views of each speaker
in a discussion
* students will be able to discern the presence or
absence of the -ed,-s morphemes with 90% accuracy
* identify and use verbally articles, auxiliaries, and
prepositions with 80% accuracy
* transcribe any spoken number with 100% accuracy
* understand and use idiomatic expressions each week
* present orally for not less than 1 minute daily
* present orally for not less than 5 minutes at least
two times during the course. * begin introducing critical thinking
skills through classroom discussions of articles, stories, and
writings