ESOL 081 - Beginning Academic English for Speakers of Other Languages

1. Increase basic vocabulary to comprehend assigned texts and determine main ideas and organizational structure.
2. Demonstrate an understanding of texts by using background information, specific detail, and main idea.
3. Improve comprehension and interpretation of text content.
4. Use an English language dictionary to expand linguistic knowledge.
5. Infer information from a text or speech.
6. Discuss American cultural values and behaviors.
7. Identify errors in basic patterns of English structure and syntax.
8. Employ simple present, past, and future tense forms.
9. Demonstrate appropriate use of nouns and pronouns.
10. Express ideas in complete sentences and organize ideas into paragraph form.
11. Produce varied sentence structure appropriate to the expression of ideas.
12. Demonstrate control of the syntax of written English for coherent communication.
13. Use revision and editing techniques with peer collaboration.

• Life skills and cultural values
• Vocabulary acquisition and dictionary use
• Reading strategies, main idea, and inference
• Spoken English and listening comprehension
• Orthography, stress sound and letter correspondence
• Grammatical structure
• Note taking
• Prewriting techniques
• Sentence structure
• Paragraph development
• Writing process
• Peer collaboration

 
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