ESL 11 - College Listening/Speaking Skills II
- Prerequisite: ESL 1
- Corequisite: ESL 13 & 14 & 17
Provides practice in the English listening speaking skills necessary to succeed in subsequent Liberal Arts and Technical/Occupational courses. Also provides the chance to combine critical thinking with practical experience as students make an active contribution to their community in service learning projects.
Contact: 3 hours lecture per week
Student Learning Outcomes
Upon successful completion of ESL 11, the student will be able to:
- Further imitate the conversational styles, forms, and sounds of English.
- Further make/respond to requests and follow/give directions.
- Further initiate and sustain a general conversation in most social situations in a range of circumstances.
- Further speak about general differences between the American culture and others.
- Further understand news stories and conversations about current, past, and future events.
- Further comprehend lectures on a range of academic and technical subjects.
- Participate in hands-on experiential active learning in listening/speaking situations outside the classroom.
- Engage in responsible and challenging actions for the common good.
- Keep regular and detailed journal entries that include reflections, observations, thoughts, and feelings about a service learning experience.
- Use those journal entries as the basis for an oral presentation.
- Work in groups sharing and reporting information.
- End-of-the term evaluation of students' ability to identify main ideas/supporting details in a videotaped academic lecture.