ELL 50 High Intermediate ELL

9-15 credits

In this course, students practice and improve communication skills to function effectively in various life situations and to explore program opportunities.

Prerequisites: ELL 40 or INTL 40 (or placement into ELL 50)

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

Reading
- Recognize unfamiliar and some specialized words by breaking words into parts and using contextual clues
- Monitor and enhance comprehension by recognizing key words and posing and answering questions
- Organize information using some strategies, such as recall, restatement, simple sequencing and simple categorization
Writing
- Develop a writing process to brainstorm, organize, and revise compositions
- Write essays that include a thesis statement, topic sentences, and supporting details
- Identify and use fundamental grammar, correct sentence structure, and punctuation principles
- Develop proofreading skills
Listening
- Respond appropriately to extended explanations and narratives, detailed instructions and complex conversations
- Use a wide range of strategies effectively to repair gaps in understanding and give feedback
- Apply linguistic, socio-cultural, and other background knowledge and strategies to understand the intent of the speaker
Speaking
- Use basic grammar and a variety of sentence types in a range of somewhat unfamiliar or unpredictable communication tasks
- Elaborate with some detail and examples and select the most important information to relay
- Recall and use sufficient oral vocabulary related to personal experience and everyday activities, some idioms

Total Hours: 90-150 Theory (Lecture) Hours: 90-150