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INTL 30 High Beginning ELL

15 credits


In this course, students practice and improve communication skills with an equal emphasis on listening, speaking, reading, and writing.

Prerequisites: INTL 16  or equivalent placement score

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

Listen

  • Distinguish voice patterns for questions, statements and imperatives
  • Respond to conversations, instructions, and narratives in the form of basic, connected discourse on familiar topics related to personal background/needs and everyday tasks
  • Apply background knowledge to understand the intent of the speaker

Speak

  • Use vocabulary and basic sentence structure related to common/everyday topics or personal experience in familiar/predictable communication tasks
  • Use simple strategies (such as making and responding to requests for feedback repetition and rephrasing) to meet the speaking purpose

Read

  • Demonstrate familiarity with simple, everyday knowledge and vocabulary
  • Read simple stories and understand main messages
  • Use various strategies sucha as restating, rephrasing text, and using a simplified dictionary

Write

  • Make basic edits of grammar, capitalization, spelling, and punctuation
  • Use appropriate subject-verb agreement
  • Organize and write 4-5 sentence paragraphs with proper structure using various verb tenses

Total Hours: 150 Theory (Lecture) Hours: 150