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ESL 094 - Adv ESL Listen/Convers Skills

Credits: 3
Lecture Hours: 2
Lab Hours: 2
Practicum Hours: 0
Work Experience: 0
Course Type: Coll Prep
For advanced students to develop fluency in English and to improve the listening and conversation skills needed for careers and academic study. Classroom activities are supplemented by individualized listening and pronunciation exercises.
Competencies
  1. Develop critical thinking skills through a variety of classroom activities.
    1. Infer word meaning from context.
    2. Compare and contrast different viewpoints.
    3. Support opinions with information.
    4. Analyze and discuss different opinions.
    5. Understand and apply literal, figurative, and metaphorical languages.
    6. Separate facts from opinions.
  2. Improve listening skills for personal and academic use.
    1. Distinguish between main ideas and details.
    2. Make predictions and inferences.
    3. Relate listenings to personal experiences and values.
    4. Organize and synthesize information from the listening.
    5. Paraphrase and relate information in the listening-to-others’ view points.
    6. Develop listening techniques to ensure successful note taking.
  3. Demonstrate speaking skills to enable self expression.
    1. Express and solicit opinions and relate personal experiences.
    2. Participate in discussions and add information and personal opinions to other?s ideas.
    3. Use target vocabulary in free responses.
    4. Agree and disagree with opinions.
    5. Respond appropriately to complex and controversial questions.
    6. Frame oral arguments to emphasize a point.
    7. Master presentation platform skills: eye contact, gestures, movement, posture, and voice.
  4. Expand vocabulary to be able to converse in a variety of fields.
    1. Identify and use correct word forms.
    2. Understand and use idiomatic expressions correctly.
    3. Distinguish between literal and figurative meaning.
    4. Identify and use paraphrases, synonyms, and idiomatic expressions.
    5. Discern parts of speech in order to use vocabulary correctly.
    6. Categorize and apply vocabulary.
  5. Develop and utilize pronunciation techniques in order to be better understood.
    1. Distinguish and use syllabic stress and vowel/consonant sounds.
    2. Develop and practice intonation, rhythm, and inflexion.
    3. Identify and use thought groups.
    4. Use contractions and reduced forms.
    5. Identify and use ellipsis.
    6. Produce blending and linking across word boundaries.
  6. Expand knowledge of Grammar.
    1. Use modals to express degrees of certainty.
    2. Identify and use adjective and adverb clauses.
    3. Identify and employ spoken discourse connectors.
    4. Distinguish and use count and non-count nouns and their quantifiers.
    5. Discriminate and use gerund and infinitive forms of the verbs, direct and indirect speech, passive voice, and passive causative.



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