Academic Track Course Descriptions
ELI 80W Intermediate Grammar and Writing (6 credits)
This course provides support for non-native speakers of English to improve their sentence structure skills and begin writing paragraphs. Correct use of simple and progressive verb tenses, subject-verb agreement, comparative and superlative adjectives, and adverbs of frequency is stressed as students produce correct sentences and well-organized paragraphs. Students are also introduced to identifying appropriate use of the perfect tense, articles, prepositions, and verbal complements. Successful completion of this course enables students to proceed on to essay writing.
Pre-requisite: LOEP Placement test
ELI 80R Intermediate Reading and Vocabulary (3 credits)
In this course students develop their reading comprehension skills with pre-reading strategies, skimming, scanning, identifying main ideas and supporting details, separating fact from opinion, and understanding point of view and tone. Students learn to summarize written material and use context clues to determine the meanings of unfamiliar words. They learn to use an English-only dictionary and to expand vocabulary knowledge through the study of word families, roots, and affixes. An introduction to the use of the Internet to conduct a basic search is included.
Pre-requisite: LOEP Placement test
ELI 80L Intermediate Listening and Presentation Skills (3 credits)
In this course non-native speakers will develop listening comprehension and presentation skills. Emphasis will be placed on understanding oral presentations and utilizing appropriate phrases for expressing agreement and disagreement, making suggestions, and stating and supporting personal opinions. Students will deliver brief impromptu talks as well as prepared speeches. They will also learn to take notes from oral presentations.
Pre-requisite: LOEP Placement test
ELI 81G High Intermediate Grammar (3 credits)
In this course ESL students continue to develop and practice correct grammar. Students employ correct tenses, modals, question forms, and word order in independent speaking and writing. They learn to use the perfect tenses, identify and use the passive voice, and connect ideas appropriately using a variety of conjunctions. Practice forming compound and complex sentences, and employing prepositions, articles, and gerunds and infinitives is included.
Pre-requisite: Grade of C or better in all ELI 80 courses or LOEP Placement test
ELI 81W High Intermediate Reading and Writing (6 credits)
This course offers ESL speakers instruction in reading comprehension, critical thinking skills, and writing for academic success. Students read diverse academic and general text selections including fiction and nonfiction. Emphasis is on comprehension, analysis, and interpretation of these readings. Students observe the structure of the readings and use the content as material to respond to as they learn to produce logical and coherent paragraphs and write well-developed short essays. They paraphrase and summarize ideas from reading selections and research, and apply these ideas to their own writing. Working together, the students edit and revise their work for organization, grammar, punctuation, and spelling. This course includes an introduction to research skills.
Pre-requisite: Grade of C or better in all ELI 80 courses, concurrent registration in ELI 81G or a grade of C or better in ELI 81G, or LOEP Placement test.
ELI 81L High Intermediate Oral Communication for College (3 credits)
This course offers high intermediate level English as a Second Language students practice in academic oral comprehension and classroom communication skills. The use of appropriate phrases for expressing disagreement, frustration, and interrupting a speaker, as well as practice in cooperative learning is stressed.Students learn to listen actively, to take notes, to paraphrase and synthesize listening selections, and to respond appropriately.Students present orally, share personal and cultural perspectives and explain and support their opinions.
Pre-requisite: Grade of C or better in ELI 80L, or LOEP Placement test.
ELI 82G Advanced Grammar (3 credits)
This course offers non-native speakers the opportunity to continue to develop grammatical skills to communicate ideas effectively orally and in writing. Students practice correct use of all verb tenses, modal auxiliaries, gerunds and infinitives, and prepositions. They learn to construct and use adjective, noun, and adverb clauses, and to edit their written work.
Pre-requisite: Grade of C or better in ELI 81G courses or LOEP Placement test.
ELI 82W Advanced Reading and Writing (6 credits)
This course prepares non-native speakers to understand and respond to college-level material across academic disciplines. The course offers development of critical and inferential reading skills, and practice producing well-developed, logical, and cohesive essays. Students build familiarity with the format and organizational elements of fiction and nonfiction text encountered in academic settings. They synthesize reading and research material and incorporate ideas in their own writing by paraphrasing, summarizing, and using direct quotation. Students work cooperatively offering peer review and edit their own work for organization content, and grammatical errors. The course includes a research project utilizing references documented in MLA form. Students also learn to prepare well-organized responses to standard essay exam questions.
Pre-requisite: Grade of C or better in ELI 81W and 81G courses, concurrent registration in ELI 82G or a grade of C or better in ELI 82, or LOEP Placement test.
ELI 82L Advanced Academic Listening and Note-taking Skills (3 credits)
In this course non-native speakers will develop the listening and speaking skills necessary for college-level work. They will take notes effectively from academic listening selections, summarize the contents of a listening selections, and compare the information provided by several listening selections. Students will share personal and cultural perspectives, prepare and administer interviews and surveys and orally present research results. They will deliver well developed speeches with adequate support, substantially correct grammar, and appropriate vocabulary.
Pre-requisite: Grade of C or better in ELI 81L, or LOEP Placement test.
