EASL 015 Beginning ESL Literacy

1-12 credits

• Listening:
  • Understand the relationship between letters and sounds
  • Respond appropriately to simple questions, statements, and high frequency commands as part of simplified conversations
  • Master a few simple formulas to convey understanding and ask for repetition or clarification

• Speaking:
  • Apply simple sentences and appropriate nonverbal behavior to express needs
  • Learn basic survival vocabulary to describe objects or report an activity
  • Use a limited set of learned words and phrases related to basic personal information and a limited number of activities in familiar and predictable communication tasks

• Reading:
  • Demonstrate familiarity with concepts of letter names and sounds (individual consonants and vowels), and common vocabulary
  • Read and understand dates and time in general
  • Recognize everyday words or word groups in short, simple text and on personal information forms applying basic phonics rules

• Writing:
  • Write upper/lower case letters legibly and appropriately using simple, everyday, highly familiar words (personal names, signatures, addresses)
  • Write numbers (dates, phones #s, prices) and simple phrases to convey information
  • Write simple sentences using the Simple Present and Present Continuous