EASL 030 High Beginning ESL

1-15 credits

In this course students will practice and improve communication skills with an equal emphasis on listening, speaking, reading and writing.

Prerequisites: EASL 016 or equivalent placement score.

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

Listening
- Distinguish voice patterns for questions, statements and imperatives
- Understand and respond to conversations, instructions, and narratives in the form of basic connected discourse on familiar topics related to personal background/needs and everyday tasks
- Apply background knowledge to understand the intent of the speaker
Speaking
- Use vocabulary related to common/everyday topics or personal experience and basic sentence structure in familiar/predictable communication tasks
- Use simple strategies (such as making and responding requests for feedback repetition, and rephrasing) to meet the speaking purpose
Reading
- Demonstrate familiarity with simple, everyday knowledge and vocabulary
- Read simple stories and understand main messages
- Use various strategies such as restating and rephrasing text, and use a simplified dictionary
Writing
- Complete information on forms
- Use familiar vocabulary and simple sentence structure to produce several sentences on a topic
- Make simple edits of grammar, capitalization, spelling, and punctuation

Total Hours: 150 Lecture Hours: 150