140 Student Learning Outcomes

A student who successfully completes this course will be able to:

• Use sufficient vocabulary to discuss and understand the main idea in a simple lecture.
• Guess meaning of new vocabulary from the context of a listening activity.
• Demonstrate sufficient listening comprehension to understand main ideas and details in a lecture.
• Take notes independently from a simple lecture.
• Take guided notes from a more complex lecture.
• Use simple vocabulary on personal and non-personal topics.
• Spell key words at level*.
• Demonstrate discussion skills on personal/non-personal topics.
• Agree/disagree and state opinions politely in class settings.
• Demonstrate ability to discuss and present ideas.
• Use situationally appropriate grammar in the context of a conversation.
• Use situationally appropriate sentence structures in the context of a conversation.
• Produce consonant and vowel sounds.
• Manage major aspects of suprasegmentals.

A student who successfully completes this course will be able to:

• Comprehend and use basic sentence structures with correct parts of speech, subject-verb agreement, and word order.
• Comprehend and use present and past tenses, both simple and progressive.
• Comprehend and express future with simple future, be going to and present progressive.
• Comprehend and use present perfect tense.
• Identify and comprehend present perfect progressive and past perfect tense.
• Comprehend and use passive voice in simple tenses.
• Comprehend and use modals in the present, in the future and in the past (could, had to).
• Comprehend and use count and non-count nouns with appropriate quantifiers.
• Comprehend and use pronouns and possessive adjectives.
• Comprehend and use comparisons with adjectives and adverbs.
• Comprehend and use adjective clauses with who, that, which, and whose.
• Comprehend and use infinitives in different patterns (as a subject, as an object, for a purpose, after an adjective).
• Comprehend and use gerunds in different patters (as subject, as an object).
• Write a variety of simple, complex and compound sentences with increasing ability.
• Write a well-developed and coherent paragraph with a topic sentence, several supporting sentences, and a concluding sentence.
• Demonstrate increasing ability to write a short essay/composition that has:
  • an introduction with a thesis statement.
  • body paragraph(s) with logical flow of ideas.
  • a conclusion.
• Revise a draft for content and organization.
• Recognize and correct mistakes in sentence structure and other grammatical points covered at this level.

A student who successfully completes this course will be able to:

• Identify the topic of a reading.
• Identify the main idea of a reading.
• Identify the supporting details of a reading.
• Choose the logical concluding phrase of a paragraph.
• Identify the pattern of organization of a paragraph and the clues for the pattern of organization. (listing, sequence, comparison, problem/solution, cause/effect)
• Identify the noun a pronoun refers to.
• Identify the part of speech (n, v, adj, adv.) and choose the correct word form in a sentence.
• Identify fact and opinion sentences.
• Make inferences.
• Answer a variety of comprehension questions (multiple choice, fill in the blank)
• Understand the first 1,350 most common English words.
• Guess the meaning of new words from the context.
• Learn frequent collocations and identify the meaning of the collocations.

* “At-level” is described by the aggregate grammar and vocabulary in the Objectives and Student Learning Outcomes for the Intermediate English I (DAS 140) curriculum.