Academic ESL A / Intensive Speak-out 6 – Level 6 (15 weeks: 270 hours)
Course requirement | CaMLA EPT | CaMLA Speaking | CaMLA Writing | Total Range for Placement |
Placement Test | 69-80 | 20-25 | 30-40 | 119-145 |
Course Description/Goal | Academic ESL A and Intensive Speak-out 6 offer nonnative speakers guided practice in academic reading and writing. Students will read critically and write coherently. These courses also offer nonnative speakers guided practice in academic listening, note-taking, class discussions and presentation skills. These courses help students develop academic reading and writing skills through examination of a wide range of reading materials and essay development; expand students’ ability to comprehend to academic lectures and discussion; further develop learners’ confidence and fluency; expand students’ ability to apply knowledge of advanced grammatical forms and structures when speaking in academic situations. | |||
Course Hours | Academic ESL A: 210 hours (14 hrs/week), Intensive Speak-out 6: 60 hours (4 hrs/week) | |||
Student Learning Outcomes (SLOs) | At the end of the course: Students will be able to identify purpose, audience and organizational patterns in a variety of written texts. Students will be able to use inferences and identify connections and integrate texts. Students will be able to employ patterns of organization in writing. Students will be able to compose essays in a variety of rhetorical modes. Students will be able to employ knowledge of advanced grammatical structures in writing clearly and fluently Students will be able to identify and analyze main ideas, details and infer relationships in academic lectures and discussions. Students will be able to create detailed notes that include definitions, main ideas, details, and examples. Students will be able to identify digressions and distinguish between major and minor ideas. Students will be able to perform formal presentations following the speech structure of introduction, body and conclusion. Students will be able to utilize both verbal and non-verbal cues to express ideas when giving presentations. Students will be able to utilize voice to stress key ideas, define words, use cues and build an emotional appeal. Students will be able to present a documentary proposal and express hypothetical preferences in real and unreal situations, utilizing relative clauses, reduction of clauses, and perfect aspects.
Students will be able to paraphrase key ideas and identify implied information on familiar or unfamiliar topics in authentic conversations.
Students will be able to respond to opinions on familiar or controversial issues and conduct negotiations in various situations, utilizing a variety of mixed time frames, modal verbs, inversion and comparisons.
Students will be able to apply techniques to improve intonation for adding emphasis, focused on stress and unstress words used for agreeing, proposing persuading, and strong reactions.
Students will be able to employ skills with double contractions, vowels, rhythm, pausing, and blending. | |||
