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.

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.