ELL 067 - ELL Technology Support Level 6

Credits: 1-5
Provides ELL 060 students with opportunities to learn, improve, and use English through technology. Students will discover new ways to enhance their language-learning skills, which will add to their overall success in other ELL classes and beyond. This is a pass/no credit course.

Prerequisite: ELL 050 ; and placement test; and instructor’s permission.

Course Outcomes:
Students who successfully complete this class will be able to:

Independently accomplish and/or collaborate to complete English language-learning activities and project-based assignments through technology. In order to do so successfully, students need to know the major parts of a computer and express an understanding of their basic functions.
Use technology vocabulary appropriately and effectively.
Use keys and functions common to most programs, such as save, open, delete, and close.
Gain access and learn how to use resources, such as spell check, thesaurus, and dictionaries. Increase ability in using a variety of other forms of technology, such as a digital camera, scanner, etc.
Use the Internet, Canvas, online databases, email, and programs such as Microsoft Word and PowerPoint.

*The outcomes will be adjusted in depth and intensity depending on the credits for which the classes are offered. More intensity and depth can include: multi-level cohort activities, class projects, guest speakers, field trips, and expanded language development and application in speaking, listening, reading, and writing.

Program Outcomes
We are now using the Career and College Readiness Standards from the National Reporting System. When students are ready to leave our program, they can do the following:

In Reading
Cite evidence from the text to analyze and draw inferences
Summarize
Use context to determine meaning
Analyze how texts are organized
Determine points of view
Understand graphs, charts, diagrams, maps
Delineate and evaluate arguments
Compare and contrast texts
Be familiar with affixes and roots
Understand similes and metaphors

In Writing
Produce clear and coherent writing in which the development, organization, and style are appropriate to the task and audience
Write to inform, explain, examine and convey ideas
Write arguments with reasons and evidence
Write narratives
Introduce and develop a topic
Create cohesion and clarify relationships between ideas
Revise, edit, rewrite
Do short research project drawing on several cited sources

In Speaking & Listening
Actively participate in conversations
Analyze arguments
Build on the ideas of others
Express opinions clearly and persuasively
Work in groups to discuss, pose, and answer questions
Contribute relevant comments and observations
Evaluate soundness of speakers’ reasoning and sufficiency of evidence
Adapt speech to formal/informal circumstances
Give clear, effective presentations integrating multi-media

By the time you leave level 6, you should have control over these parts of grammar:
punctuation, present, past, future, continuous, present perfect, past perfect, modals, gerunds, infinitives, questions and negative statements, pronouns and prepositions, active and passive voice
compound and complex sentences.

College-wide Outcomes

Responsibility - Responsibility encompasses those behaviors and dispositions necessary for students to be effective members of a community. This outcome is designed to help students recognize the value of a commitment to those responsibilities which will enable them to work successfully individually and with others.
Written Communication - Written Communication encompasses all the abilities necessary for effective expression of thoughts, feelings, and ideas in written form.