Course Objectives

Upon successfully completing this course, you will have met the following goals:

  1. Goal 1 - Students will be able to produce a sentence orally
    • Use correct stress at the word level
    • Use appropriate sentence stress
    • Pause at word/phrase boundaries
  2. Goal 2 - Students will be able to use intonation patterns appropriately
    • Use grammatical patterns with appropriate voice inflection
    • Use grammatical patterns appropriately
    • Use word and sentence stress and intonation patterns correctly
  3. Goal 3 - Students will build accuracy in basic sentence structures
    • Use appropriate verb form and tense
    • Edit writing for agreement
  4. Goal 4 – Students will be able to understand class discussion and academic presentations
    • Identify main ideas and details of academic lectures
    • Develop basic note-taking skills