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| CATALOG INFORMATION
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| Discipline and Nbr:
ESL 315GR | Title:
ESL 315GR |
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| Full Title:
Intermediate Grammar - Intensive |
| Last Reviewed:3/11/2024 |
| Units | Course Hours per Week | | Nbr of Weeks | Course Hours Total |
| Maximum | 1.50 | Lecture Scheduled | 1.50 | 17.5 max. | Lecture Scheduled | 26.25 |
| Minimum | 1.50 | Lab Scheduled | 0 | 6 min. | Lab Scheduled | 0 |
| | Contact DHR | 0 | | Contact DHR | 0 |
| | Contact Total | 1.50 | | Contact Total | 26.25 |
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| | Non-contact DHR | 0 | | Non-contact DHR Total | 0 |
| | Total Out of Class Hours: 52.50 | Total Student Learning Hours: 78.75 | |
Title 5 Category:
AA Degree Non-Applicable
Grading:
P/NP Only
Repeatability:
00 - Two Repeats if Grade was D, F, NC, or NP
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Catalog Description:
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A communicative grammar course designed for intermediate ESL students to reinforce a variety of English grammar structures studied in ESL 312 and ESL 314.
Prerequisites/Corequisites:
Recommended Preparation:
Course Completion of ESL 312 OR ESL placement score of ESL 314 or higher.
Limits on Enrollment:
Schedule of Classes Information
Description:
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A communicative grammar course designed for intermediate ESL students to reinforce a variety of English grammar structures studied in ESL 312 and ESL 314.
(P/NP Only)
Prerequisites:
Recommended:Course Completion of ESL 312 OR ESL placement score of ESL 314 or higher.
Limits on Enrollment:
Transfer Credit:
Repeatability:00 - Two Repeats if Grade was D, F, NC, or NP
ARTICULATION, MAJOR, and CERTIFICATION INFORMATION
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Certificate/Major Applicable:
Not Certificate/Major Applicable
COURSE CONTENT
Outcomes and Objectives:
At the conclusion of this course, the student should be able to:
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Upon completion of this course, students will be able to:
1. Identify sentence boundaries and use relative pronouns and subordinating conjunctions to join clauses using correct punctuation and capitalization.
2. Distinguish among simple, compound, and complex sentences with adjective, adverb, and noun clauses, and use sentence variety in writing.
3. Edit sample writings for verb form and tense shift errors such as simple (present, past, future) continuous (present, past, future), and perfect (present, past, future).
4. Correctly use infinitives and gerunds following a main verb, passive voice with a variety of tenses, and modals with active, passive, and various tenses in writing.
5. Correctly use quoted speech and reported speech in writing.
Topics and Scope
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Topics and Scope
A. Sentence boundaries and punctuation of complex sentences
1. Period, comma, and semi-colon
2. Quotation marks
3. Subordinating conjunctions
4. Essential and non-essential adjective clauses
5. Direct and indirect speech
B. Noun clauses, adjective clauses, and adverb clauses
1. Reporting verbs and verbs introducing noun clauses
2. Pronoun and time word shifts for indirect speech
3. Relative pronouns
4. Subordinating conjunctions for time, contrast, purpose, and condition
C. Verb form and tense usage
1. Simple: present, past, and future
2. Continuous: present, past, and future
3. Future with will, and be going to
4. Present and past perfect, present and past perfect continuous
5. Infinitive and gerund
6. Present, future, and past modals
7. Passive voice with all tenses
Assignments:
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The following represent types of assignments that may be included:
A. In-class work
1. Individual, paired or group problem-solving activities that focus on a particular grammar point (5-8 activities)
2. Individual, paired or group editing activities (5-8 activities)
3. 4-8 quizzes
4. Final exam
B. Homework
1. Textbook exercises
2. Composing and editing paragraphs using structures studied in class
3. Finding examples of grammatical structures in newspaper and magazine articles and online
4. Journals
Methods of Evaluation/Basis of Grade.
| Writing: Assessment tools that demonstrate writing skill and/or require students to select, organize and explain ideas in writing. | Writing
20 - 40% |
| Written textbook exercises, paragraph homework, journal | |
| Problem solving: Assessment tools, other than exams, that demonstrate competence in computational or non-computational problem solving skills. | Problem Solving
0 - 0% |
| None | |
| Skill Demonstrations: All skill-based and physical demonstrations used for assessment purposes including skill performance exams. | Skill Demonstrations
0 - 0% |
| None | |
| Exams: All forms of formal testing, other than skill performance exams. | Exams
50 - 70% |
| Quizzes and final | |
| Other: Includes any assessment tools that do not logically fit into the above categories. | Other Category
10 - 15% |
| Class attendance and participation | |
Representative Textbooks and Materials:
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Fundamentals of English Grammar, 4th edition by Azar. Koch & Hagen Pearson, 2011
Grammar Express; Intermediate, 1st edition, by Fuchs & Bonner, Pearson, 2001 (classic)
Grammar for Writing; An Editing Guide to Writing 2, by Cain, Joyce S., Pearson, 2012
Grammar in Use; Intermediate, 3rd edition, by Murphy, Raymond & W.R. Smalzer, Cambridge U Press, 2009
More Grammar Practice 3; Intermediate & High-Intermediate, 2nd ed. by Elbaum, Sandra N., Cengage Learning, 2011
Top 10; Great Grammar for Great Writing, 1st edition by Folse, Solomon & Tortorella, Cengage Learning, 2008
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