EASL 016 Low Beginning ESL

1-12 credits

This course continues teaching basic functional English but has an increasing emphasis on beginning reading and writing.

Prerequisites: EASL 015 or equivalent placement score.

Quarters Offered: Fall, Winter, Spring

Student Outcomes/Competencies:
Upon successful completion of this course students will be able to:

Listening:
- Understand and respond to simple requests and to ask for repetition and clarification
- Differentiate statements from questions based on grammar and intonation
- Use sentences and appropriate non-verbal and visual clues to express needs

Speaking:
- Use basic vocabulary and simple sentence structure to describe people or objects
- Use a limited set of learned words, phrases, and short sentences related to basic personal information
- Initiate and maintain simple conversations by applying such strategies as gestures, eye contact, and simple, repeated requests

Reading:
- Read and understand schedules, calendars, and other data sources
- Use context clues to decode and recognize familiar words in short, simple text by breaking words into parts
- Read and understand U.S. measurement for weight, volume, distance, and temperature
- Read short passages and identify the main idea and some details

Writing:
- Fill out personal information and other forms accurately and neatly
- Use everyday vocabulary to write a few related sentences on a single topic
- Make simple edits of grammar, capitalization, spelling, and punctuation based on review and feedback from others