Listening Student Learning Outcomes
ACHIEVEMENT
Listening 138
In-class Assessment
Coordinated
Assessment
#1 - Has sufficient basic vocabulary to
participate in life-skills based
conversations
#2 - Can respond appropriately to basic
conversational English
vocabulary quizzes, teacher
observation
Midterm and final
achievement test
questions/quizzes, teacher
observation
Midterm and final
achievement test
#3 - Can follow more complete oral
explanations/directions
quizzes, teacher observation
Midterm and final
achievement test
#4 - Can complete basic dictation
exercises.
quizzes
Midterm and final
achievement test
#5 - Can identify order in basic English
discourse
quizzes, teacher observation
Final achievement
test
#6 - Can connect main ideas to
supporting details
quizzes, teacher observation
Midterm and final
achievement test
#7 - Can answer simple questions
based on a short listening activity
quizzes, teacher observation
Midterm and final
achievement test
#8 - Can list basic information in short
listening activity
collected notes
Final achievement
test
Speaking Student Learning Outcomes
Goals for Learning to
Speak Better
Speaking 138
In-class Assessment
Coordinated
Assessment
#1- Can state point of view
In-class activities, teacher
observation, oral/written
assessment
Midterm and final inclass interview
#2- Can start, maintain, and
end a conversation
In-class activities, teacher
observation, oral/written
assessment
Midterm and final inclass interview
#3- Can use simple vocabulary
on familiar/personal topics
In-class activities, teacher
observation, oral/written
assessment
Midterm and final inclass interview
#4- Can use grammar from
previous level: future
(will/going to), wh q’s, present
simple, yes/no with do, present
continuous, pronouns,
comparatives, and quantifiers)
#5 – Can use at level grammar
when speaking: questions
w/how, prepositions of place,
present perfect, simple past,
modals, superlatives
In-class activities, teacher
observation, oral/written
assessment
Midterm and final inclass interview
In-class activities, teacher
observation, oral/written
assessment
Final in-class interview
#6- Can produce consonant
and vowel sounds, and begins
to produce suprasegmentals
Teacher observation, oral
assessment
Final in-class interview
#7- Can read level-appropriate
material aloud
In-class activities, teacher
observation
N/A
#8- Can follow and participate
in conversations at level
In-class activities, teacher
observation, oral assessment
Midterm and final inclass interview
Reading Student Learning Outcomes
Reading 138
Aims for learning to read
How you can
End of
better:
show the teacher Semester:
Be able to:
you can do this:
 Understand readings at 138level
 Preview and make predictions
Comprehension  Identify main ideas, details, and
conclusions
 Answer various types of
comprehension questions
Vocabulary
Rate (Fluency)
Classroom and
Test-taking
Skills
 Understand and use vocabulary
at 138-level
 Guess new words in context
 Understand word forms
 Understand the importance of
reading rate
 Identify and use strategies to
increase reading rate
 Complete reading tasks within
specified time
 Use skimming/scanning
techniques to answer questions
 Pronounce and spell new
vocabulary
 Use a dictionary – English only
 Respond to readings in short
answers
 Discuss readings
 Use paced/timed readings to
increase reading speed with 138level texts
 Teacher
observation
 Homework
 Reading skills
tests
 Final
Achievement
test
 Homework
 Vocabulary
quizzes and tests
 Teacher
observation
 Final
Achievement
test
 In-class practice
 Final
Achievement
test
 Teacher
observation
 Homework
 Reading skills
tests
Writing Student Learning Outcomes
Writing 138
When a student completes this course successfully,
he/she will be able to:
Grammar:
 Comprehend and use be and have in present, past and future
tenses
 Comprehend and use simple present and progressive
 Comprehend and use simple past and past progressive
 Comprehend and use simple future and be going to
 Comprehend and use modals in the present (could, had to in the
past
 Identify infinitive structures and use them to express purpose
 Identify and use count and non-count nouns and common
quantifiers
 Analyze a sentence, and identify the parts of speech of its parts
(noun, verb, adjective, adverb, pronoun)
 Comprehend and use comparative and superlative adjectives and
adverbs
Writing:
 Write simple sentences (affirmative, negative, and interrogative)
with correct capitalization, punctuation, word order and correct
subject-verb agreement
 Write compound sentences (but, so, and, or) correctly
 Write complex sentences with time clauses (after, before, when,
while)
 Write a paragraph (8-10 sentences)
 that has correct paragraph format
 that has a topic sentence, supporting sentences and a
concluding sentence
 that show a logical flow of ideas
 that has transition words
 Recognize and correct mistakes in capitalization, punctuation,
sentence structure, verb forms, and other grammatical points
covered at this 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)