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 ELL 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