Listening Student Learning Outcomes
Goals for Learning
Listening 150
How You Can Show the
Teacher You Can Do This
Has sufficient vocabulary to
understand an academic
lecture
Can paraphrase academic
discourse
Tests, Vocabulary quizzes, notes
Can identify main idea and
supporting details of a
complex academic lecture
Can take notes independently
from a longer academic
lecture with main idea and
supporting details.
Can organize notes and use
them effectively for test
preparation and to answer
test questions
Can discuss notes with other
students and draw
conclusions
tests, questions/quizzes right after
listening not using notes
Summaries, discussion groups,
presentations
collected notes after lecture
End of
Semester
Coordinated
exams and final
achievement test
Coordinated
exams and final
achievement test
Coordinated
exams and final
achievement test
Coordinated
exams and final
achievement test
Tests and Quizzes with notes,
discussion projects with notes
Coordinated
exams and final
achievement test
Quizzes with notes, discussion
projects with notes
Not applicable
Speaking Student Learning Outcomes
Goals for Learning to
Speak Better
#1- Demonstrates ability to
converse about general
topics
#2- Can ask and answer
questions appropriately and
accurately
#3- Can participate in large
and small group discussions
#4- Can speak briefly in
impromptu situations
#5- Can use level-appropriate
vocabulary on selected nonpersonal topics
#6- Can use grammar from
previous levels, and perfect
tenses, complex sentences,
gerunds and infinitives, and
conditionals
#7- Can produce consonant
and vowel sounds, and can
manage suprasegmentals
#8- Can read levelappropriate material aloud
#9- Can follow and participate
in conversations at level
#10-Can briefly explain levelappropriate academic
vocabulary
#11-Can support answers
with clearly related reasons
and examples
#12-Can give brief
summaries of levelappropriate academic
material
Speaking 150
How You Can Show the End of Semester
Teacher You Can Do
This
In-class activities, teacher
observation, oral/written
assessment
In-class activities, teacher
observation, oral/written
assessment
In-class activities, teacher
observation, oral/written
assessment
In-class activities, teacher
observation, oral/written
assessment
In-class activities, teacher
observation, oral/written
assessment
In-class activities, teacher
observation, oral/written
assessment
Final in-class interview
Teacher observation, oral
assessment
Final in-class interview
In-class activities, teacher
observation
In-class activities, teacher
observation, oral assessment
In-class activities, teacher
observation, oral assessment
N/A
In-class activities, teacher
observation, oral assessment
Final in-class interview
In-class activities, teacher
observation, oral assessment
Final in-class interview
Final in-class interview
N/A
N/A
Final in-class interview
Final in-class interview
Final in-class interview
Final in-class interview
Reading Student Learning Outcom
Reading 150
Aims for learning to read
How you can
End of
better:
show the
Semester:
Be able to:
teacher you can
do this:
Comprehension  Comprehend readings at 150level
 Identify main ideas, supporting
details, and conclusions
 Recognize organizational
patterns
 Preview and make predictions
 Make inferences
 Paraphrase and summarize
 Answer various types of
comprehension questions
Vocabulary
 Understand and use vocabulary
at 150-level
 Guess meanings of words in
context
 Understand word forms
 Recognize and use collocations
 Recognize and use connotations
Rate (Fluency)  Identify and use strategies to
increase reading rate
 Complete reading tasks within
specified time
Classroom and  Discuss readings
Test-Taking
 Recognize, pronounce and spell
Skills
new vocabulary
 Use a dictionary – monolingual
English
 Use skimming/scanning
techniques to answer questions
 Respond to readings in short
and/or essay-length answers
 Understand academic test
questions and directions
 Read 150-level text at minimum
of about 180 WPM with at least
70% comprehension
 Use paced and timed readings
to increase reading speed with
leveled 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
 Assessed through
in-class practice
throughout the
semester
 Reading skills
tests
Writing Student Learning Outcomes
Writing 150
150 Writing SLOs
How to show your
teacher you can do
these
Can demonstrate increasing ability to use prewriting and
organizational skills
Can demonstrate an understanding and application of simple and
compound sentences
Can demonstrate increasingly advanced sentence structures to add
clarity to writing
Can demonstrate increasing written coherence through
organization, development, and word choice
Can demonstrate increasing ability to analyze and revise own
writing at this level
Can demonstrate increasing ability to edit own writing for
mechanical and structural errors at this level
Can begin to give and understand the concept of constructive
criticism regarding peers’ work
Can produce paragraphs of 10-12 sentences with topic sentence,
support, and concluding sentence
Can demonstrate understanding and increasing ability to express
ideas in academic essays with introduction, two or more body
paragraphs, and concluding paragraph
Can demonstrate understanding and increasing ability to
summarize and respond to readings in oral and written form
Homework
Quizzes
In-Class Writing
In-Class Activities
150 Grammar SLOs
How to show your
teacher you can do
these
Can use all verb tenses (excluding perfect progressive tenses and
future perfect tense)
Can demonstrate increasing ability to use a variety of sentence
structures, including simple, compound, and basic understanding of
complex sentences
Can use adjective, adverb, and noun clauses
Can use connectors in clauses
Can use gerunds and infinitives
Can use grammatical structures and patterns appropriate for highintermediate ESL writing
Can use passive voice and differentiate between passive and active
Can use modals in polite requests, necessity, advisability,
expectations, making suggestions
Homework
Quizzes
In-Class Writing
In-Class Activities