EL501: ESL: Listening and
Speaking I (4 units, 0 credits)
Michelle Morita Cho,
Adjunct Instructor in ESL
Spring 2007 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: 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:
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.