EL501:
Listening and Speaking I (4 units, 0 credits)
Michelle
Morita, Adjunct Instructor in ESL
Winter 2006 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:
Dale, Paulette and James C. Wolf Speech
Communication Made Simple 2nd ed. Addison Wesley Longman, 2000.
Lebauer, Roni S. Learn to Listen Listen to Learn 2nd ed. Addison Wesley
Longman, 2000.
RECOMMENDED
READING:
Alterbaum, Irene and Joyce Buck. Listen Speak:
Ease in Communication for Second Language Speakers of English. (3rd
ed.) Kendall Hunt Publishing Co., 2003.
ASSIGNMENTS:
This noncredit course is “Satisfactory” or “Not
Satisfactory.” The following requirements are designed to strengthen English
language fluency, particularly listening and speaking skills:
1. Class participation and preparation (weekly
chapel services, notes)
2. A minimum of 10 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.