Student Learning Outcomes
This course provides foundational speaking and listening skills needed for success in academic settings. Students will learn to take notes from lectures, to give academic presentations and to accurately understand and produce American English speech patterns and pronunciation. Students will expand cultural knowledge related to Minnesota and the United States to communicate verbally in US academic settings. To maximize student learning, this course has been developed to be taken with ESOL 0910 and ESOL 0920. This course provides an equitable opportunity for non-native speakers of English to improve the skills necessary to succeed in college-level classes.
STUDENT LEARNING OUTCOMES:
STUDENT LEARNING OUTCOMES:
- Recognize lecture organizational patterns, themes and topics.
- Analyze topic, main idea, and details in lectures and discussions.
- Produce appropriate pronunciation, intonation, rhythm and stress in speaking.
- Distinguish academic language used in various college disciplines.
- Apply notetaking methods based on college lectures and other academic discourse.
- Interpret verbal and nonverbal language markers in a lecture.
- Select appropriate vocabulary and language for academic communication.
- Develop academic study skills and behaviors.
- Analyze college-level lectures and discussions.
- Utilize cultural context clues needed to comprehend academic lectures.
Prerequisites
Please see eServices for section availability and current pre-req/test score requirements for this course.