150 Student Learning Outcomes

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

• Utilize academic and content vocabulary to understand an academic lecture.
• Listen for and recognize common and target vocabulary.
• Use strategies to recognize context clues in order to understand unfamiliar lecture language.
• Listen to oral discourse and respond appropriately.
• Identify topics, main ideas, and supporting details of complex academic lectures.
• Take notes independently from a longer academic lecture with main idea and supporting details.
• Use their notes to reconstruct an academic lecture.
• Organize notes and use them effectively for test preparation and to answer test questions.

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

• Converse about general topics.
• Answer questions appropriately and accurately.
• Use level-appropriate* vocabulary on selected non-personal topics.
• Follow and participate in conversations at-level*.
• Support answers with clearly related reasons and examples.
• Comprehensibly produce consonant and vowel sounds and demonstrate awareness of appropriate stress, rhythm, and intonation.
• Speak briefly in impromptu situations.
• Use situationally appropriate grammar to narrate, explain, describe, and summarize ideas or events in the past, present, or future.
• Give brief summaries of level-appropriate academic material.

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

• Use all verb tenses (not including Past Perfect Progressive, Future Perfect, and Future Perfect Progressive).
• Use passive voice and differentiate between passive and active in simple tenses.
• Recognize and use modals of ability, advice, obligation, necessity, polite requests, expectations, and suggestions.
• Recognize and produce sentences with noun, adjective, and adverb clauses.
• Comprehend and produce sentences with gerunds and infinitives.
• Write a variety of sentence structures (simple, compound, complex statements and questions).
• Construct clear and concise sentences.
• Demonstrate written coherence through organization, development, and word choice.
• Express ideas in academic essays with introduction, two or more body paragraphs, and conclusion.
• Analyze, revise, and edit own writing.
• Demonstrate an understanding of academic integrity in the U.S. university context.

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

• Identify topics.
• Identify main ideas.
• Identify supporting details.
• Understand & identify pronoun-reference.
• Comprehend academic texts & answer various types of comprehension / critical thinking questions, including ones in which the student is expected to paraphrase.
• Recognize and identify organizational patterns: sequence, comparison/contrast, problem/solution, cause/effect.
• Recognize direct inferences.
• Use a graphic organizer to accurately analyze readings.
• Distinguish between facts and opinions.
• Read and interpret infographics: such as charts, graphs, maps, diagrams, illustrations, etc.
• Accurately discern the meaning of vocabulary (words and collocations) based on context.
• Understand and identify word forms based on the context the word is used in
• Identify connotation of vocabulary items in context.

* “At-level” is described by the aggregate grammar and vocabulary in the Objectives and Student Learning Outcomes for the Intermediate English II (DAS 150) curriculum.