May 15, 2025  
Catalog 2025-2026 
    
Catalog 2025-2026

ELL 15 Beginning ELL Literacy

1-15 credits
This course is for students beginning to study English. It teaches core elements of English, with a focus on speaking, listening, reading, and writing. 

Prerequisites: Appropriate placement score

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

  • 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 

Total Hours: 10-150 Theory (Lecture) Hours: 10-150