EL501:
Listening and Speaking I (4 units, 0 credits)
Michelle
Morita, Adjunct Instructor in ESL
Fall 2005 Pasadena
DESCRIPTION:
This course focuses on the
skills required to speak and comprehend fluent American English in an academic
setting. Students will have opportunity to develop listening comprehension and
note-taking strategies, and will be expected to participate in class
discussions as well as to hold conversations with native English speakers.
LEARNING
OUTCOMES:
· Adequate comprehension and note-taking of academic lectures (rapidity,
selection, organization)
· Predicting the content of
lectures and evaluating information
·
Understanding new vocabulary in context clues/word forms
·
Recognizing organization and relationship of ideas in academic lectures (main
ideas, supporting details)
·
Understand how to organize lecture notes
· Synthesizing lecture information to other knowledge sources (e.g.
reading, writing assignments)
·
Adequate comprehension of small group discussions
·
Adequate spoken grammar
· Speaking with more fluency
and coherence
·
Clarity in pronunciation, stress, and intonation
· Participating effective in class, conversations, and small group
discussions, with consideration to American cultural norms.
·
Preparation for participation in the advanced ESL class
COURSE
FORMAT:
Students will take notes while listening to
lectures, participate in group communication, and practice pronunciation.
REQUIRED
READING:
Espeseth, Miriam. Academic Listening
Encounters: Listening, Note Taking, and Discussion. New York, NY: Cambridge
University Press, 1999.
Matthews, Candace. Speaking Solutions: Interaction, Presentation, Listening,
and Pronunciation Skills, Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall Regents, 1994.
ASSIGNMENTS:
Students will do a variety of speaking and
listening activities ranging from taking notes from a lecture to making
individual presentations.
PREREQUISITES:
None.
RELATIONSHIP
TO CURRICULUM: Meets partial requirements to advance within the ESL Program.
FINAL
EXAM: ESL Exit Exam.