EASL 050 High Intermediate ESL

1-15 credits

Students will practice and improve communication skills to function effectively in various life situations and to explore program opportunities.

Prerequisites: EASL 040 or equivalent placement score.

Quarters Offered: Fall, Spring

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

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
- Write a simple narrative, informative, or expressive paragraph
- Use strategies to identify, brainstorm and organize ideas to support a single purpose such as to convey personal experience, meet a specific need or respond to recent learning
- Make edits of grammar, spelling, sentence structure, language usage and text structure
Listening
- Understand and 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 basic 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 related to personal experience and everyday activities, some idioms