ELL 42 - ELL Summer Institute Conversation Level 4

Credits: 5
Provides intermediate ELL students with conversation and pronunciation language practice. This is a pass/no credit course.

Enrollment Requirement: ELL 3 , 30 , 31  or 38 ; and placement test; and instructor consent.

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

1. Speak more fluently with increased vocabulary and improved pronunciation, intonation and word stress.
2. Know the differences between formal and informal speech.
3. Use your conversational skills to actively participate in class, other classes and outside of class at work, home, and within the community.
4. Enhance your active listening skills.
5. Improve your ability to manage conversations, recognize when listeners don’t understand and be able to provide clarification, have a positive attitude toward speaking and an increased confidence in speaking, as well as be self-motivated, independent learners.

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.