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138 Student Learning Outcomes
Beginning English II (DAS 138) Listening and Speaking
A student who successfully completes this course will be able to:
- Complete basic dictation exercises.
- Answer simple questions based on a short listening activity.
- List basic information in short listening activity.
- Identify order in basic English discourse.
- Connect main ideas to supporting details.
- Follow more complex oral explanations/directions.
- Acquire basic vocabulary to participate in life-skills based conversations.
- Spell key words at level.
- State point of view.
- Start, maintain, and end a conversation.
- Use at-level* vocabulary on familiar/personal topics.
- Use situationally appropriate grammar in the context of a short conversation.
- Respond to questions in a comprehensible manner.
- Produce consonant and vowel sounds.
- Begin to produce suprasegmentals.
Beginning English II (DAS 138) Written Communication
A student who successfully completes this course will be able to:
- Comprehend and use the correct parts of speech and word order in sentences.
- Comprehend and use to be and to have in present, past and future tenses.
- Comprehend and use present progressive and simple present with adverbs of frequency and with prepositional time phrases.
- Comprehend and use simple past and past progressive.
- Connect main ideas to supporting details.
- Comprehend and use simple future and be going to.
- Comprehend and use modals in the present (and could, had to in past).
- Comprehend and use count and non-count nouns and common quantifiers.
- Comprehend and use pronouns and possessive adjectives.
- Comprehend and use basic infinitive structures to express purpose.
- Comprehend and use comparative and superlative adjectives and adverbs.
- Write simple sentences (affirmative, negative, and interrogative) with correct capitalization, punctuation, word order and correct subject-verb agreement.
- Write compound sentences (but, so, and, or) correctly.
- Write complex sentences with time clauses (after, before, when, while) and with because.
- Write a paragraph (10-12 sentences)
- with sentences using at level vocabulary.
- that has correct paragraph format
- that has a topic sentence, supporting sentences, and a concluding sentence.
- that show a logical flow of ideas.
- that has transition words.
- Recognize and correct mistakes in capitalization, punctuation, sentence structure, verb forms, and other grammatical points covered at this level.
Beginning English II (DAS 138) Reading
A student who successfully completes this course will be able to:
- Use previewing and predicting skills.
- Identify the topic of a reading.
- Identify the main idea of reading.
- Identify the supporting details of a reading.
- Identify the noun a pronoun refers to.
- Identify the part of speech of a word (n, v, adj., adv.) and be able to choose the correct word form in a sentence.
- Know and apply common prefixes and suffixes.
- Identify the complete subject and verb of a sentence.
- Answer comprehension questions.
- Understand the first 900 most common English words.
- Guess the meaning of new words from the context.
- Learn frequent collocations and identify the meaning of the collocations.
- Read verbs in simple and progressive past and present as well as the future. Recognize verb tenses: past, present, and future.
* “At-level” is described by the aggregate grammar and vocabulary in the Objectives and Student Learning Outcomes for the Beginning English II (DAS 138) curriculum.