SLOs for ESL Courses
Course
SLO(s)
ESL-48
[summer]
Conduct short conversations about daily life, interests, past
experiences, and future plans (for example, the weather,
food, health, work, and family).
1. Students will improve their ability to identify the basic
parts of speech.
2. Students will increase their knowledge of basic, every
day language (greeting, asking for directions, weather,
health, family, etc.)
3. Students will learn and feel comfortable using
appropriate classroom language (such as How do you
pronounce …)
Students will improve their ability to read and understand
elementary-level dialogs and paragraphs in English.
Students will feel more comfortable and confident about
the course(s) for which they receive tutoring.
1. Students will be able to understand their homework
assignments better.
2. Students will be able to do better in their ESL
classes.
Conduct extended conversations about daily life, interests,
past experiences, and future plans (for example, the
weather, food, health, work, and family), and accessible
current events.
Conduct extended conversations about career/workplace
topics and social/current events.
Present and support a point of view related to a variety of
career, social, and academic topics.
1. Students will be able to do a 2-3 minute oral presentation
on a topic related to daily life.
2. Students will be able to demonstrate comprehension of
short conversations about daily life.
1. Students will be able to do a 2-3 minute oral
presentation on a current issue of their choice.
2. Students will be able to demonstrate comprehension
of ideas in a short, expository lecture.
1. Students will be able to do a 5-7 minute oral
presentation on a current issue of their choice.
2. Students will be able to demonstrate comprehension
of an introductory academic lecture.
1. Students will be able to present a 5-7 minute speech
on a complex topic, incorporating research and/or
secondary sources.
ESL-50
ESL-51
ESL-107
ESL-109
ESL-112
[summer]
ESL-114
[summer]
ESL-118
[summer]
ESL-123
ESL-126
ESL-129
ESL-132
Last
updated
Fa2011
Sp2010
Sp2011
Fa2010
Sp2013
Fa2011
Fa2011
Fa2011
Sp2013
Sp2013
Sp2013
Sp2013
ESL-135A
ESL-135B
ESL-143
ESL-146
ESL-149
ESL-152
ESL-163
ESL-166
ESL-169
ESL-172
ESL-175
2. Students will be able to demonstrate comprehension
of an academic lecture.
Students will be able to deliver a 2-3 minute expository
presentation using intelligible stress, intonation and
phonology.
Students will be able to deliver a 2-3 minute expository
presentation using intelligible stress, intonation and
phonology.
Students will demonstrate the ability to comprehend
simple adapted texts under 500 words on topics related
to daily life.
Students will demonstrate the ability to comprehend
simple adapted texts under 1000 words on topics
related to daily life and introductory academic topics.
Students will demonstrate the ability to comprehend
simple authentic texts on topics related to daily life and
introductory academic topics.
Students will demonstrate the ability to comprehend
entry-level college texts.
1. Students will demonstrate their ability to recognize
the correct use of selected grammatical structures as
specified in the course outline of record.
2. Students will demonstrate their ability to write
grammatically correct simple sentences in paragraph
form.
1. Students will demonstrate their ability to recognize
the correct use of selected grammatical structures as
specified in the course outline of record.
2. Students will demonstrate their ability to write
grammatically correct simple and compound sentences
in paragraph form.
1. Students will demonstrate their ability to recognize
the correct use of selected grammatical structures as
specified in the course outline of record.
2. Students will demonstrate their ability to write
grammatically correct simple, compound and complex
sentences in paragraph form.
1. Students will demonstrate their ability to recognize
the correct use of selected grammatical structures as
specified in the course outline of record.
2. Students will demonstrate their ability to
communicate their ideas clearly and effectively using a
variety of sentence patterns.
Students will be able to identify and correct most of
their errors in writing.
Fa2013
Fa2013
Fa2009
Fa2009
Fa2009
Fa2009
Fa2009
Fa2009
Fa2009
Fa2009
Sp2011
ESL-178
ESL-183
ESL-186
ESL-189
ESL-192
ESL-195
ESL-200
ESL-201
ESL-202
1. Students will demonstrate their ability to recognize
the correct use of selected grammatical structures as
specified in the course outline of record.
2. Students will demonstrate their ability to
communicate their ideas clearly and effectively using a
variety of sentence patterns.
Students will demonstrate ability to write 100-word
paragraphs in clear, grammatically correct simple
sentences.
Students will demonstrate ability to write 250-word
well-structured paragraphs in clear, grammatically
correct simple and compound sentences.
Students will demonstrate ability to write unified,
coherent, adequately-supported multi-paragraph
essays of 350 words. Students will be able to
incorporate a variety of sentence structures.
Students will demonstrate ability to write unified,
coherent essays of 500 words incorporating rhetorical
styles appropriate to the purpose of the essay.
Students will be able to communicate their ideas clearly
and effectively.
Students will demonstrate the ability to evaluate,
analyze, and summarize college level readings.
Students will demonstrate ability to write unified,
coherent essays of 750+ words incorporating rhetorical
styles appropriate to the purpose of the essay. Students
will draw in secondary sources of support for their
main argument.
Students will demonstrate their ability to comprehend
the ECHD textbook.
Students will demonstrate their ability to comprehend
the ECHD textbook.
Students will demonstrate their ability to comprehend
the ECHD textbook.
Fa2009
Sp2010?
Sp2010?
Sp2010?
Sp2010?
Sp2010?
Fa2010
Sp2011
Fa2011