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Exit Level Student Learning Outcomes
Advanced English I - 151 Speaking (3 credit Hours)
A student who successfully completes this course will be able to:
- Demonstrate fluency in conversing about both academic and non-academic topics
- Demonstrate fluency in “small talk” in non-academic situations
- Follow and participate in conversations
- Support answers with clearly related reasons and examples
- Produce consonant and vowel sounds, and manage suprasegmentals
- Demonstrate ability to give short impromptu speeches
- Give summaries of academic material
- Use situationally appropriate grammar to narrate, explain, describe, and summarize ideas or events in the past, present, or future.
- Use appropriate vocabulary on a range of non-personal topics including current events, and topics covered readings
Advanced English I - 154 Listening (3 credit hours)
A student who successfully completes this course will be able to:
- Utilize academic and content vocabulary to understand an unsimplified academic lecture
- Use strategies to recognize context clues in order to understand unfamiliar vocabulary
- Listen for and recognize target vocabulary.
- Listen to oral discourse and respond appropriately
- Identify topics, main ideas, and supporting details of unsimplified academic lectures.
- Use notes from an unsimplified academic lecture to prepare for and answer test questions.
- Integrate information based on notes from multiple sources and use for test preparation
- Use notes to reconstruct an unsimplified academic lecture
Advanced English I - 152 Written Communication (6 credit hours)
A student who successfully completes this course will be able to:
- Understand all verb tenses
- Use all verb tenses (excluding Past Perfect Progressive, Future Perfect, and Future Perfect Progressive)
- Recognize and produce sentences with noun, adjective, and adverb clauses
- Use conditionals
- Comprehend and produce sentences with gerunds and infinitives
- Recognize and use modals of polite requests, necessity, advisability, expectations, suggestions, degrees of certainly (hedging expressions) in simple and progressive forms
- Use quoted and reported speech
- Use advanced sentence structures (simple, compound, complex statements and questions) to add clarity to writing
- Use parallel structure
- Demonstrate written coherence through organization, development, and word choice
- Express individual ideas in different modes of academic essays
- Identify and edit structural common errors including comma splices, run-ons, and fragments
- Analyze, revise, and edit own writing
- Use appropriate citation format for academic writing
- Correctly incorporate and cite outside sources in the Summary-Response Essay homework assignment
- Summarize and paraphrase authentic articles and sources
- Respond to readings in written form
- Demonstrate advanced critical thinking skill in writing
Advanced English I - 153 Reading and Vocabulary (6 credit hours)
A student who successfully completes this course will be able to:
- Understand the structure of a text by answering comprehension questions and completing graphic organizers
- 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
- Identify the best summary of a text
- Read and interpret infographics, such as charts, graphs, maps, diagrams, illustrations, etc.
- Recognize & identify organizational patterns: listing, sequence, comparison/contrast, problem/solution, cause/effect, extended definition
- Make valid inferences
- Read critically to understand the author’s purpose and point of view
- Distinguish between facts and opinions
- Recognize documentation of sources
- Accurately discern the meaning of vocabulary (words & 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
Advanced English II - 163 Reading (3 credit hours)
A student who successfully completes this course will be able to:
- Understand the structure of a text by answering comprehension questions and completing graphic organizers
- 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
- Identify the best summary of a text
- Recognize & identify organizational patterns: listing, sequence, comparison/contrast, problem/solution, cause/effect, extended definition
- Make valid inferences
- Reading critically to understand author's purpose and point of view
- Distinguish between facts and opinions
- Read and interpret infographics, such as charts, graphs, maps, diagrams, illustrations, etc.
- Recognizing documentation of sources
- Accurately discern the meaning of vocabulary (words & 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
Advanced English II - 166 Writing (3 credit hours)
A student who successfully completes this course will be able to:
- Use grammatical structures appropriate for advanced ESL writing
- Use advanced sentence structures (simple, compound, complex statements and questions) to add clarity to writing
- Use parallel structure
- Demonstrate written coherence throughout organization, development, and word choice
- Express individual ideas in different modes of academic essays
- Identify and edit structural common errors including comma splices, run-ons, and fragments
- Analyze, revise, and edit own writing
- Use appropriate citation format for academic writing
- Summarize, synthesize, and paraphrase authentic articles and sources
- Respond to readings in written form
- Demonstrate advanced critical thinking skill in writing