ESL 10G is a low-intermediate multi-skills course that helps English language learners
improve their listening, speaking, and grammar.
ESL10W is a low-intermediate multi-skills course that helps English language learners
improve their reading and writing skills in a multicultural setting. This course focuses
on composing a variety of sentence types in present, past, and future tenses, reading
comprehension, and vocabulary.
ESL 11A is an intermediate, multi-skills course that helps English language learners
improve their communication skills in a multicultural setting. It focuses on writing
academic paragraphs, grammar, reading, academic vocabulary, listening, and speaking.
This high-intermediate course helps English language learners improve their communication
skills in a multicultural setting. It focuses on paragraph and essay writing, reading,
academic vocabulary, critical thinking, and advanced grammar.
This advanced course helps English language learners refine their communication skills
with an emphasis on reading, writing, and critical thinking in a multicultural setting.
Students compose multi-paragraph essays that integrate source materials and use advanced
grammar and vocabulary.
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This course helps English language learners communicate more effectively by learning
the vowel and consonant sounds of standard North American English. The course emphasizes
listening skills, auditory discrimination, and production of these sounds. It also
introduces spelling patterns in relationship to vowel and consonant sounds.
This course is designed to help English language learners communicate more effectively
by learning the rhythm and intonation patterns of standard North American English.
The course includes a brief review of all vowel sounds and specific consonants.
This speaking/listening course for English language learners examines the cross-cultural
differences that affect communication. It prepares students to understand and speak
English more clearly and fluently in pairs, groups, class discussions, interviews,
panels, and speeches. Conversation techniques, vocabulary acquisition, reading, and
critical thinking are employed.
This course helps English language learners develop confidence and clarity in spoken
and written English communication through a focus on the noun system and articles.
Topics covered include count and non-count nouns, singular and plural forms, and proper
and common nouns. The course also covers modifiers, quantifiers (such as possessives
and demonstratives: this, that, these, those), articles (a, an, the), and subject-verb
agreement.
This course helps English language learners to communicate effectively using correct
verb forms including: present, past, future, perfects, passives, conditionals, and
modals.
This course helps English language learners to construct grammatically correct sentences
using appropriate punctuation. Students will learn to combine sentence elements (clauses
and phrases) to produce effective sentences.
This course is designed for intermediate English language learners who want to improve
their reading skills. Students will improve their reading comprehension and critical
thinking skills by utilizing strategies such as previewing, skimming, scanning, and
making inferences. They will learn how to identify main ideas and details and an author's
purpose and tone. They will analyze passages from fiction and non-fiction.
This course helps high-intermediate English language learners improve their grammar
and sentence variety in speaking and writing. It focuses on language skills needed
to complete ESL 19A and ESL 19B. ESL 19A and ESL 19B students who need extra help
with grammar are encouraged to enroll in this class.
This course helps advanced English language learners refine their writing and editing
skills. Concurrent enrollment in this course is highly recommended for success in
ESL 19A and ESL 19B.
This course is designed for students who wish to develop their techniques for understanding
academic vocabulary and using English words idiomatically. It emphasizes context and
use of high-frequency academic vocabulary. Students will learn to comprehend and use
approximately 200 academic words to improve their reading comprehension, speaking,
listening, and writing skills for academic success. It is designed for students at
the 19A or 19B level.