EASL 015 Beginning ESL Literacy

1-12 credits

This course is for students beginning to study English as a second language. It teaches survival English, with a focus on speaking and listening.

Prerequisites: Appropriate placement score.

Quarters Offered: All

Student Outcomes/Competencies:
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