Provides practice in the sound, stress, intonation, structural patterns, grammar, vocabulary, and idioms of beginninglevel English. Credits are not applicable toward graduation. Lecture 5 hours per week.

To give low-intermediate ESL students the opportunity to develop skills in understanding and producing correct English structures through oral and written communication. To provide practice listening to and understanding academic lectures.

Prerequisite: An English placement test recommendation for ESL Level 2

Upon completion of this course, the student will be able to:

1. Produce a sentence orally
   Objectives -
   
   • use correct stress at the word level
   • use appropriate sentence stress
   • pause at word/phrase boundaries
2. Use intonation patterns appropriately
Objectives -

• use grammatical patterns with appropriate voice inflection
• use grammatical patterns appropriately
• use word and sentence stress and intonation patterns correctly
3. Build accuracy in basic sentence structures
Objectives -

• use appropriate verb form and tense
• edit writing for agreement
4. Understand class discussion and academic presentations
Objectives -

• identify main ideas and details of academic lectures
• develop basic note-taking skills

This course requires that students use a microphone and headset.

Possible Assignments Include: (Subject to change each semester. The actual assignments are available in the Syllabus in the Blackboard course site on the first day of classes.)

Your final grade will be based on the following scale. Please note that you must also pass at least two of the three exams in order to pass the course, regardless of your scores on the other assignments.

There are 3 exams in this course.

Last Updated: February 19, 2016