ELL 50 High Intermediate ELL

• 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 intermediate-level 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 such as job-related and academic vocabulary and some idioms