EL501/ 506: Listening and Speaking 1a/ b (4 units, 0 credits)

Rachel Monn, Adjunct Instructor in ESL
Winter 2008 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:

1. 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

2. Synthesizing lecture information to other knowledge sources (e.g. reading, writing assignments)

3. Adequate comprehension of small group discussions

4. Adequate spoken grammar

Speaking with more fluency and coherence
Clarity in pronunciation, stress, and intonation

5. Participating effective in class, conversations, and small group discussions, with consideration to American cultural norms.

COURSE FORMAT: This class will meet twice each week for two-hour sessions. Students will take notes while listening to lectures, participate in group communication, and practice pronunciation.

REQUIRED READING: If you have previously read any of the required texts, please select an alternative text from the recommended reading list or a book approved by the instructor.

1. Dale, Paulette and James C. Wolf Speech Communication Made Simple 2nd ed. Addison Wesley Longman, 2000.
2. 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. (3^rd 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.

Note: This ECD is a reliable guide to the course design, but is subject to modification. Last Date Edited: 10 October 2007