12/4/2024 12:25:49 AM	EMLS 716 Course Outline as of Fall 2024	Changed Course
CATALOG INFORMATION
Discipline and Nbr:  EMLS 716	Title:  NC EMLS HIGH INT
Full Title:  Noncredit High-Intermediate English
Last Reviewed:3/17/2022

Units		Course Hours per Week			Nbr of Weeks	Course Hours Total
Maximum	0	Lecture Scheduled	6.00		17.5 max.	Lecture Scheduled	105.00
Minimum	0	Lab Scheduled	0		8 min.	Lab Scheduled	0
		Contact DHR	0			Contact DHR	0
		Contact Total	6.00			Contact Total	105.00
		Non-contact DHR	0			Non-contact DHR Total	0

Total Out of Class Hours:  210.00

Total Student Learning Hours: 315.00

Title 5 Category:  Non-Credit
Grading:  Non-Credit Course
Repeatability:  27 - Exempt From Repeat Provisions
Also Listed As: 
Formerly:  ESL 716

Catalog Description:

Students will develop language skills in English to function independently in profession, academic, and community settings. This class is for noncredit, high-intermediate English language learners.

Prerequisites/Corequisites:

Recommended Preparation:

Limits on Enrollment:

Schedule of Classes Information
Description:

Students will develop language skills in English to function independently in profession, academic, and community settings. This class is for noncredit, high-intermediate English language learners.

(Non-Credit Course)
Prerequisites:
Recommended:
Limits on Enrollment:
Transfer Credit:
Repeatability:27 - Exempt From Repeat Provisions

ARTICULATION, MAJOR, and CERTIFICATION INFORMATION

Associate Degree:		Effective:		Inactive:
Area:
CSU GE:	Transfer Area			Effective:	Inactive:
IGETC:	Transfer Area			Effective:	Inactive:
CSU Transfer:		Effective:		Inactive:
UC Transfer:		Effective:		Inactive:
C-ID:

Certificate/Major Applicable: Certificate Applicable Course

COURSE CONTENT

Student Learning Outcomes:
At the conclusion of this course, the student should be able to:

1. Use reading, writing, speaking and listening skills to clearly communicate and understand ideas in personal, academic, and vocational settings.

2. Employ appropriate culturally appropriate skills to communicate effectively with diverse cultural groups at work, school, and in the community.

3. Demonstrate study skills needed to matriculate to credit ESL courses.

 

Objectives:

At the conclusion of this course, the student should be able to:

1. Identify the main idea and supporting details in extended reading selections of fiction and nonfiction.

2. Use a variety of strategies including word analysis and contextual clues to determine the meaning of new words and phrases.

3. Use prewriting skills to brainstorm and organize ideas on a topic in preparation to write a paragraph or essay.

4. Fill out forms needed in personal, vocational and/or academic contexts.

5. Communicate more effectively and clearly with appropriate pronunciation in informal, academic and/or professional settings including interviews with an employer, medical provider, counselor, community resource, or school official.

6. Articulate long term academic, vocationa,l and personal goals and steps needed to achieve these goals.

7. Demonstrate effective and culturally appropriate behaviors in personal, professional, and academic environments.

Topics and Scope

I. Listening and Speaking Skills

     A. Speaking and listening skills needed in the community and in professional or academic settings:                   

          1. making an appointment with a counselor and financial aide adviser

         2. requesting and clarifying information

         3. articulating vocational and academic goals

         4. interview skills

         5. articulating questions about employment evaluations and benefits

    B. Vocabulary development related to personal, academic, professional, and cultural life

    C. Pronunciation Skills

         1. word stress and syllabication

         2. sound/spelling patterns (falling intonation, content words and function words) consonant sounds (final -ed, etc.)

         3. intonation in questions and statements (rising and falling intonation, content words and function words)

         4. recognize and produce problematic vowel and consonant sounds (final - ed, etc.)

         5. phonemic awareness (voiced/unvoiced consonants)

 

II. Reading Skills

    A. Skimming, scanning, and predicting

    B. Identification of main ideas and supporting details in extended selections of fiction and nonfiction

    C. Analysis of short stories and authentic materials including certificate brochures, financial aid applications and other academic materials

    D. Use of vocabulary-building strategies, including the use of contextual clues and word analysis (prefixes and suffixes) to determine the meaning of unfamiliar words

    E. Application of literary terms including theme, character, setting, and plot

    F. Understanding of figurative language such as metaphor and simile

 

III. Writing Skills

    A. Process writing including brainstorming, organizing, drafting, revising, editing

    B. Paragraphs and compositions in response to literature, articles and other writing prompts

    C. Complex professional and academic forms related to vocational pursuits and matriculation to credit classes

    D. Verb tenses and language structures needed to write multiple paragraphs and essays

         1. present perfect

         2. present perfect continuous

         3. simple past, future and continuous tenses

         4. modals, complex modals

         5. pronouns (subject, object, possessive)

         6. adjectives (descriptive, demonstrative, possessive)

         7. time phrases

         8. transitions (first, second, then, finally)

         9. question formation

 

IV. Academic Skills

    A. Language of group work

    B. Organizational skills

    C. Study skills

    D. Vocabulary needed to communicate with academic personnel and supervisors at work

    E. Setting academic, professional, and personal goals and steps needed to achieve them

 

V. Cultural Skills

     A. Formal and informal speech including conversational norms used in various contexts; i.e., making "small talk", participating in interviews, talking with friends, teachers and employers

    B. Reading and writing activities related to culturally appropriate understanding and sensitivity:

         1. cross-cultural relations in diverse settings

          2. non-verbal communication

         3. social roles

          4. customs

 

VI. Vocational Skills

Topics May Include:

    A. Interview skills

    B. Applications and resumes

    C. Job search skills

    D. Evaluations at work

    E. Problem solving at work, including making suggestions, resolving interpersonal and cultural conflicts, understanding work culture in the United States.

    F. Giving and following directions, both orally and in writing.

    G. Asking for clarification.

    H. Knowing your rights at work.

Assignments:

This course will emphasize student-centered activities designed to develop reading, writing and speaking/listening skills.  

 

I. In-class work, such as:

    A. Vocabulary building exercises

    B. Pair and group activities

    C. Role plays, mock interviews and problem-solving activities in small groups

    D. Paragraphs and essays

    E. Surveys and interviews

    F. Discussion of and response to readings on a variety of themes

     G. Listening activities  

     H. Dictation

     I. Use of technology such as the Internet, ESL websites and software to improve reading, listening, vocabulary, spelling, conversation and pronunciation skills

    

II. Objective exams, quizzes, and final exam

 

III. Written Homework, such as:

    A. Surveys and interviews

    B. Reading exercises

    C. Grammar exercises

    D. Journals

     E. Vocabulary logs

    F. Writing paragraphs and/or essays

 

IV. Independent Work (ungraded):

    A. Requesting information from school and community resources

    B. Listening to TV and radio programs in English

    C. Group projects

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 40 - 50%
Written homework
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 10 - 20%
Quizzes and Objective Exams including Final Exam
Other: Includes any assessment tools that do not logically fit into the above categories.		Other Category 40 - 50%
Attendance and participation (in-class activities)

Representative Textbooks and Materials:

World English 2. 2nd ed. Chase, Becky and Milner, Martin. National Geographic Learning. 2015 (classic)

Ventures 4. 3rd ed.  Bitterlin, Gretchen and Johnson, Dennis and Price, Donna. Cambridge University Press. 2018

English in Action 4. 3rd ed. Foley, Barbara and Neblett, Elizabeth. National Geographic Learning. 2019

Longman Dictionary of American English. 5th ed. Pearson Longman. 2014 (classic)

Touchstone Level 4. McCarthy, Michael and McCarten, Jeanne and Sandiford, Helen. Cambridge University Press. 2014 (classic)

Instructor prepared materials

Print PDF