Listening Student Learning Outcomes
ACHIEVEMENT
Listening 136
In-class Assessment
Coordinated
Assessment
#1 - Has sufficient basic vocabulary to
participate in simple life-skills based
conversations
vocabulary quizzes, teacher
observation
Coordinated exams
and final
achievement test
#2 - Can follow along with/read while
listening to simple stories and/or
conversations
questions/quizzes
Coordinated exams
and final
achievement test
#3 - Can respond to questions in basic
conversational English
teacher observation
Coordinated exams
and final
achievement test
#4 - Can follow simple oral
explanations/directions
quizzes, teacher observation
Coordinated exams
and final
achievement test
#5 - Can complete basic cloze passages
and do simple dictations
quizzes
Coordinated exams
and final
achievement test
#6 - Can identify main ideas in basic
English discourse
quizzes, teacher observation
Coordinated exams
and final
achievement test
#7 - Can identify details in basic English
discourse
quizzes, teacher observation
Coordinated exams
and final
achievement test
#8 - Can answer questions based on a
short listening activity
quizzes, teacher observation
Coordinated exams
and final
achievement test
Speaking Student Learning Outcomes
Goals for Learning to
Speak Better
Speaking 136
In-class Assessment
Coordinated
Assessment
#1- Can use survival English *in In-class activities, teacher
an academic environment
observation, oral/written
assessment
#2- Can understand and
In-class activities, teacher
respond to basic questions
observation, oral/written
assessment
#3- Can use simple vocabulary In-class activities, teacher
on familiar/personal topics
observation, oral/written
assessment
#4- Can use present simple (be In-class activities, teacher
verb), pronouns, yes/no
observation, oral/written
answers, Wh questions,
assessment
present continuous,
possessions
#5 - Can use Wh questions with In-class activities, teacher
do/does, future (will/going to),
observation, oral/written
prepositions of place, can,
assessment
simple past
#6- Can produce most
Teacher observation, oral
consonant and vowel sounds.
assessment
Demonstrates awareness of
suprasegmentals
Midterm
(and Final in-class interview)
#7- Can read level-appropriate
material aloud
#8- Can follow and participate
in conversations at level
*effective as of Summer 2014
N/A
In-class activities, teacher
observation
In-class activities, teacher
observation, oral assessment
Midterm
(and Final in-class interview)
Midterm
(and Final in-class interview)
Midterm
(and Final in-class interview)
Final in-class interview
Final in-class interview
Final in-class interview
Reading Student Learning Outcomes
Reading 136
Aims for learning to read
How you can
better
show the teacher
you can do this
Comprehension
Vocabulary
Rate (Fluency)
Classroom and
Test-taking
Skills
End of Semester
 Understand readings at 136level
 Identify main ideas, details,
and conclusions
 Answer different
comprehension questions
 Teacher
observation
 Homework
 Reading skills tests
 Final Achievement
test
 Understand and use
vocabulary at 136-level
 Guess new words in context
 Homework
 Vocabulary quizzes
and tests
 Teacher
observation
 Final Achievement
test
 In-class practice
 Final Achievement
test
 Complete reading tasks on
time
 Identify and use simple
strategies to increase reading
rate
 Say, recognize and spell new
words
 Read aloud to show meaning
 Use a dictionary – bilingual or
picture
 Respond to readings in short
answers
 Discuss readings
 Teacher
observation
 Homework
 In-class practice
 Reading skills tests
Writing Student Learning Outcomes
Writing 136
When a student completes this course successfully,
he/she will be able to
Grammar:
 Identify and use basic sentence patterns (affirmative, negative,
and interrogative) and word order
 Understand and use be, have and there in present and past
 Understand and use simple present and present progressive
 Understand and use adverbs of frequency
 Understand and use simple past
 Identify and use count and non-count nouns
 Identify and use and subject, object and possessive pronouns
 Understand and use prepositions of place and time
 Identify and understand time clauses with before, after, and
when
Writing:
 Write a complete sentence (statement, negative sentence,
question) that:
 starts with a capital letter
 ends with the correct punctuation
 has the correct word order
 has the correct subject-verb (pronoun) agreement
 contains the correct present or past tense
 Write several sentences (simplified paragraph) that show a logical
flow of ideas
 Identify and correct mistakes of punctuation subject-verb
agreement, word order, and tense (simple present, simple past, and
present progressive) on the sentence level.
Forms of
Assessment:
 Homework
 In-class graded
activities
 Quizzes
 Teacher observation
 Coordinated Tests
 Final Achievement Test
(for placement)
 In-class writing
 Homework
 Coordinated Tests
 Teacher observation
 Final Achievement Test
(for placement)