ESOL Classes

	Reading	Oral Communication	Writing
High Beginning	ENGL 0337	ENL 0343	ENGL 0353
Intermediate	ENGL 0338	ENGL 0344	ENGL 0354
High Intermediate	ENGL 0339	ENGL 0345	ENGL 0355
Advanced		ENGL 0346	ENGL 0356

ENGL 0305   Reading II

This course refines students’ academic reading and vocabulary skills and provides instruction in order to fulfill the THEA requirement for reading. It includes work on reading speed development, pre-reading techniques, fact finding, word form, vocabulary in context, and extracting literal and inferential information from text as well as from charts, graphs, illustrations, and photographs. Writing is required to complement some reading activities. Open lab available. This course carries institutional credit but will not transfer and may not be used to meet degree requirements .  Prerequisite: ENGL 0339 or placement by exam.

Learning Outcomes: Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

1. Determine the meaning of text through a variety of reading strategies.
2. Identify the explicit and implicit main ideas and supporting details in written material.
3. Identify a writer's purpose, point of view, and intended meaning and evaluate the appropriateness of written material for various purposes or audiences.
4. Analyze the relationships among ideas in written material—including sequential, causal, oppositional, and problem/solution relationships—and analyze both inductive and deductive conclusions drawn from a passage.
5. Use critical reasoning skills to evaluate assumptions, logic of an argument, and validity of analogies; to judge the relevance of information to an argument; to distinguish between fact and opinion; and to assess the credibility or objectivity of the writer or source of written material.
6. Apply study skills to reading assignments, including organizing and summarizing information for study purposes, following written instructions, and interpreting graphic information.
7. Conduct a whole-topic electronic or library search using effective search strategies and tools.

ESOL Reading High Beginning
ENGL 0337 (80)

This course develops nonnative English students’ reading and vocabulary skills for personal, academic, and professional communication by using vocabulary-controlled materials based on diverse themes. The course includes extensive practice in reading and comprehending simple short stories and articles, and writing related sentences. Focus is on literal comprehension, identifying the main idea, and developing a useful and personally relevant vocabulary base. Writing is required to complement some reading activities. Students who enroll in this course should have basic literacy skills in their native language and be familiar with Roman script Open lab available. This course carries institutional credit but will not transfer and may not be used to meet degree requirements.  Prerequisite: placement by exam.

Learning Outcomes: Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

1. Apply pre-reading strategies to set a purpose for reading and to increase comprehension.
2. Demonstrate literal comprehension of short texts based on concrete topics.
3. Recognize many sight words, especially those from the environment such as common signs and words, phrases, or short sentences supported by pictures.
4. Identify the stated main idea of a short passage on a familiar topic.
5. Identify general and specific information while attending to the sequence of events in limited text.
6. Extract basic information from simple illustrations such as graphs and charts.
7. Use simple word clues to guess the meaning of unfamiliar vocabulary.
8. Use vocabulary encountered in the texts in a meaningful situation.
9. Write in response to a short text.
10. Use a monolingual ESL learner’s or picture dictionary to develop basic dictionary skills and build basic vocabulary.
    
    

ESOL Reading Intermediate
ENGL 0338 (80)

This course develops nonnative English students’ reading and vocabulary skills for personal, academic, and professional communication by using materials based on a number of topics. The course includes extensive practice in reading and comprehending multi-paragraph descriptive and narrative articles, stories, reports, and dictionary entries, and writing related paragraphs. Focus is on literal comprehension, identification of inferred main ideas, speed development, word analysis, vocabulary expansion, and dictionary skills. Writing is required to complement varied reading activities. Open lab available. This course carries institutional credit but will not transfer and may not be used to meet degree requirements.  Prerequisite: ENGL 0337 or placement by exam.

Learning Outcomes: Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

1. Apply a variety of pre-reading strategies to set a purpose for reading and to increase reading speed and comprehension (previewing, skimming, and scanning).
2. Identify the stated main idea of a paragraph or simple passage.
3. Infer the main idea of selected reading passages.
4. Locate major and supporting ideas in multi-paragraph texts.
5. Extract literal information from charts, graphs, photographs, and other illustrations.
6. Guess the meaning of unfamiliar vocabulary and phrases from context.
7. Identify the meaning and part of speech of vocabulary words, and pronounce the words correctly.
8. Apply vocabulary learning strategies such as identifying word families, common prefixes and suffixes, and synonyms and antonyms.
9. Summarize and paraphrase simple short stories and articles
10. Respond to readings by conveying an idea, opinion, feeling or experience in a simple paragraph.
11. Use a monolingual ESL learner's dictionary to identify pronunciation, word form, and meaning of new vocabulary items.
12. Understand some of the more common idioms and colloquial expressions.
13. Draw simple conclusions from readings.

ESOL Reading High Intermediate
ENGL 0339 (80)

This course continues to develop nonnative English students’ reading and vocabulary skills for personal, academic and professional purposes using a wide variety of text types and topics.   The course includes extensive practice in reading and comprehending multi-page articles, narratives, reports, editorials, opinion essays, and reference materials, and writing related responses. Focus is on interpretation of factual material and inferences; increasing speed while maintaining comprehension; recognition and comprehension of idioms, analogies, synonyms and antonyms, and context clues; word analysis; and paraphrasing and summarizing selected passages. Writing is required to complement reading activities. Open lab available. This course carries institutional credit but will not transfer and may not be used to meet degree requirements.  Prerequisite: ENGL 0338 or placement by exam.

Learning Outcomes: Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

1. Determine the meaning of text through a variety of reading strategies.
2. Identify the purpose, stated or implied main ideas, and supporting details in moderately demanding texts.
3. Differentiate between fact and opinion.
4. Identify logical relations and organization in texts and how they relate to author's purpose.
5. Extract literal and inferential information from graphs, charts, diagrams, flowcharts, photographs, and other illustrations.
6. Use a monolingual English dictionary to determine pronunciation, grammatical form, and meaning of unfamiliar vocabulary.
7. Write a response to a reading by conveying an idea, opinion, feeling or experience.
8. Use annotating, paraphrasing, and summarizing skills to respond to readings.
9. Use a variety of textual clues such as sentence connectors, transitions, and pronoun references to comprehend the meaning and structure of a text.
10. Demonstrate some awareness of style and register.

ESOL Oral Communication High Beginning
ENGL 0343 (96)

In this course students have the opportunity to develop fluency and accuracy in speaking and to apply strategies for comprehending and processing short spoken passages on familiar topics.  Students who enroll in this course should have basic literacy skills in their native language and be familiar with Roman script. Open lab available.  This course carries institutional credit but will not transfer and may not be used to meet degree requirements. Prerequisite:  Placement by exam.

Learning Outcomes: Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

1. Use the fundamental structures of English such as the simple tenses and parts of speech.
2. Ask and answer questions based on simple oral passages.
3. Speak about familiar topics and express immediate needs.
4. Use common word endings such as plurals and regular verbs.
5. Be understood by the instructor and peers.
6. Demonstrate emerging fluency and reasonable control of the sound system.
7. Understand and use common reductions and contractions.
8. Demonstrate understanding of routine questions and answers, statements, and face-to-face conversations containing familiar vocabulary.
9. Demonstrate understanding of spoken conversations using familiar material in predictable contexts.

ESOL Oral Communication Intermediate
ENGL 0344 (96)

In this course students increase proficiency in the spoken language necessary for personal, academic, and professional communication.  They develop skills at using functional language for giving advice, describing, narrating, and expressing ability and possibility, and making predictions. Students  acquire and practice strategies for comprehending statements and short spoken passages. Open lab available.  This course carries institutional credit but will not transfer and may not be used to meet degree requirements. Prerequisite:  ENGL 0343 or placement by exam.

Learning Outcomes: Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

1. Express functions of the language such as giving advice, agreeing and disagreeing.
2. Express functions of the language such as giving advice, agreeing and disagreeing.
3. Respond to open-ended questions.
4. Ask and answer questions about short oral text.
5. Respond to questions and comments and elaborate on the topic by summarizing ideas, giving examples, or defining.
6. Self-correct errors in the use of modals, comparative forms, simple time and conditional clauses, infinitives, gerunds, and present perfect tense.
7. Use correct intonation with spoken phrases and sentences.
8. Use correct pronunciation with specific words and word endings with increasing accuracy.
9. Be understood by a sympathetic listener outside the classroom.
10. Give a short presentation on a familiar topic.
11. Understand and use more sophisticated reductions and contractions.
12. Demonstrate understanding of routine questions and answers, statements, and face-to-face conversations containing some unfamiliar vocabulary.
13. Demonstrate understanding of spoken conversations using familiar material in unpredictable contexts.

ESOL Oral Communication High Intermediate
ENGL 0345 (96)

In this course students use sophisticated grammar structures and precise vocabulary in speaking and are able to comprehend short lectures. Open lab available.   This course carries institutional credit but will not transfer and may not be used to meet degree requirements. Prerequisite:  ENGL 0344 or placement by exam.

Learning Outcomes: Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

1. Use clear pronunciation and intonation in extended speech.
2.  Use correct word order, tense and agreement in speech.
3. Employ structures such as the past perfect, conditionals, and the passive voice as well as relative clauses and transition signals while telling stories, describing processes or explaining ideas.
4. Be understood outside the classroom setting most of the time.
5. Give a presentation on an assigned topic.
6. Understand and answer questions based on short lectures that contain increasingly sophisticated vocabulary and structures.
7. Understand and use reductions, elisions, and blends in the spoken language.
8. Understand formal and informal language situations including emotional overtones.
9. Understand most exchanges that occur at a near-normal conversational rate.

ESOL Oral Communication Advanced
ENGL 0346 (96)

In this course students comprehend and practice increasingly sophisticated structures in speech. Open lab available.  This course carries institutional credit but will not transfer and may not be used to meet degree requirements. Prerequisite:  ENGL 0345 or placement by exam.
 
Learning Outcomes: Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

1. Create an outline from a spoken text.
2. Give a well-supported presentation on a specific topic.
3. Use correct structures in extended speech about the past, present, or hypothetical situations.
4. Use increasingly specific vocabulary to describe or explain ideas.
5. Be understood in most situations and take part in spontaneous conversations.
6. Self-correct errors or adjust speech to be more comprehensible to the listener, including pitch, rhythm, and intonation.
7. Rephrase in speaking the main ideas of a spoken text.
8. Respond appropriately and at length to questions and comments including those that require synthesis of statements made in immediate conversational contexts.
9. Understand authentic spoken text such as radio or news broadcasts.
10. Understand exchanges that occur at a normal conversational rate.

ESOL Writing High Beginning
ENGL 0353 (96)

In this course students have the opportunity to develop, practice, and apply the basic structures of English and to perform simple writing tasks.  Students who enroll in this course should have basic literacy skills in their native language and be familiar with Roman script.  Open lab available.  This course carries institutional credit but will not transfer and may not be used to meet degree requirements. Prerequisite:  Placement by exam.

Learning Outcomes: Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

1. Use in writing the fundamental structures of English such as the simple tenses, word order, and parts of speech.
2. Fill out simple forms that require minimal biographical/personal information.
3. Follow basic spelling and punctuation conventions.
4. Write simple descriptions and narration of events, stories, future plans about self and family, or other highly familiar topics.

ESOL Writing Intermediate
ENGL 0354 (96)

In this course students increase proficiency in the writing skills necessary for basic personal and academic communication.  Students use process writing techniques to write simple paragraphs and gain mastery in the use of the basic structures of the language.  Open lab available. This course carries institutional credit but will not transfer and may not be used to meet degree requirements. Prerequisite:  ENGL 0353 or placement by exam.

Learning Outcomes: Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

1. Use prewriting devices (e.g. brainstorming, outlining, drafting) to compose paragraphs.
2. Write a well-organized descriptive, narrative, process, and example paragraph with a topic sentence and sufficient support.
3. Revise and edit their own work for such errors as subject-verb agreement, verb tenses, fragments, spelling, capitalization, and punctuation.
4. Use simple sentences and/or coordinated clauses with basic tenses.
5. Employ structures such as comparative forms, simple time and conditional clauses, modals, infinitives, gerunds, and present perfect tense.

Writing High Intermediate
ENGL 0355 (96)

In this course students use sophisticated grammar structures in writing short essays using process writing techniques.  Open lab available. This course carries institutional credit but will not transfer and may not be used to meet degree requirements.  Prerequisite:  ENGL 0354 or placement by exam.

Learning Outcomes: Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

1. Use prewriting devices (e.g. brainstorming, outlining, drafting) to compose short essays.
2. Write a well-organized short essay in such rhetorical modes as cause and effect, comparison and contrast, definition, and opinion with a thesis statement and sufficient support.
3. Revise and edit their own work for such errors as subject-verb agreement, fragments, run-ons, comma splices, spelling, capitalization, and punctuation.
4. Employ structures such as the past perfect, modals, conditionals, the passive voice, and different types of clauses.
5. Use conjunctions and transition words.

Writing Advanced
ENGL 0356 (96)

In this course students use process writing techniques to write academic essays such as comparison and contrast, classification, cause and effect and argument.  Open lab available. This course carries institutional credit but will not transfer and may not be used to meet degree requirements.  Prerequisite:  ENGL 0355 or placement by exam.

Learning Outcomes: Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

1. Narrow down a topic appropriate to the audience, purpose, situation, and length of assignment.
2. Write a well-organized essay containing a thesis and sufficient support.
3. Write thesis statements that advance the writer’s purpose.
4. Edit their own work for errors such as subject-verb agreement, pronoun reference, illogical shifts in person or tense, parallelism, fragments, run-ons, and comma splices.
5. Revise the essay for organization, redundancy, and coherence.
6. Paraphrase and summarize text when external sources are used.
7. Acknowledge borrowed ideas accurately to avoid plagiarism.
8. Demonstrate college entry-level control over a variety of rhetorical modes using multi-draft and timed writing assignments.