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Course Title:
Academic Listening and Speaking 2
Course Prefix & No.:
LEC: LAB:
ESLX0812
6.0
0
Credit Hours:
6.0
COURSE DESCRIPTION:
This low-intermediate-level ESL course provides instruction and practice in the listening comprehension and
speaking of academic English and the development of academic vocabulary and critical thinking skills.
COURSE PREREQUISITE (S):
ESLX 0811or assessment testing
RATIONALE:
This course is the second course in a sequence of Academic Listening and Speaking courses. It prepares lowintermediate-level ESL students for success after completing the high-beginning-level entry course in the ESLX
program. It combines specific listening and speaking instruction with academic content and opportunities to
expand critical thinking skills.
REQUIRED TEXTBOOK (S) and/or MATERIALS:
Title:
Q: Skills for Success Listening and Speaking 2: Units: 6 - 10
with Q Online Practice Access Code Card (new)
Edition:
Latest
Author:
Margaret Brooks
Publisher:
Oxford University Press
Materials:
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Attached course outline written by:
Gail Baker
Date:
July, 2012
Reviewed/Revised by:
Naomi Mardock
Date:
July, 2012
Effective quarter of course outline:
12/FA
Date:
Academic Dean:
Dr. Ken Jones
Date:
Course Objectives, Topical Unit Outlines, and Unit Objectives must be attached to this form.
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TITLE: Listening and Speaking 2:
PREFIX/NO: ESLX0812
COURSE OBJECTIVES:
Upon completion of ESLX0812, the student will be able to:
1. Predict content and identify main ideas and details in audio presented at level-appropriate speed with
70% accuracy.
2. Identify and use relevant, level- and content-appropriate vocabulary and appropriate pronunciation and
intonation in oral presentations with 70% accuracy.
3. Identify and use standard grammatical forms in speaking and writing with 70% accuracy.
4. Integrate information from multiple sources for use in oral presentations with 70% accuracy.
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TOPICAL UNIT OUTLINE/UNIT OBJECTIVES:
1. Unit Outcomes:Role-play a school committee discussion reaching a decision about the school dress
code.
Listening objective: Listening for main ideas and specific details; understanding speakers’
attitudes/intonation.
Speaking objective: Drawing attention to main ideas.
Vocabulary objective: Identifying and using collocations of nouns with verbs.
Grammar objective: Present continuous verbs.
Pronunciation objective: Interjections and intonation.
Critical thinking objective: Integrate information from multiple sources; anticipate arguments contrary
to one’s own.
2. Unit Outcomes: In a group presentation, describe key aspects of a building that the group members have
designed.
Listening objective: Listening for main ideas and specific details; cause/effect.
Speaking objective: Asking for and giving examples.
Vocabulary objective: Identifying nouns and verbs in a given word family.
Grammar objective: There’s + it’s.
Pronunciation objective: Syllables with unstressed vowels represented by the schwa.
Critical thinking objective: Integrate information from multiple sources; inferences.
3. Unit Outcomes: Give a short presentation on bad manners.
Listening objective: Listening for main ideas and specific details; predictions.
Speaking objective: Giving advice and make recommendations.
Vocabulary objective: Identifying and using synonyms.
Grammar objective: Modals: should/shouldn’t; modal questions.
Pronunciation objective: Words linked by final /s/ and /z/ sounds.
Critical thinking objective: Integrate information from multiple sources; personal behavior awareness;
inferring other points of view.
4. Unit Outcomes: In a group, develop a simple educational board game and introduce the board game to
another group.
Listening objective: Listening for main ideas and specific details; names and dates.
Speaking objective: Giving instructions.
Vocabulary objective: Understanding suffixes –ty and –ity.
Grammar objective: Imperative verbs.
Pronunciation objective: Syllables and word stress.
Critical thinking objective: Integrate information from multiple sources; recognizing/organizing mental
patterns; strategizing in a competitive situation.
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5. Unit Outcomes: Give a two-minute impromptu speech responding to a quotation about families.
Listening objective: Listening for main ideas and specific details; listen for reasons, explanations,
intonation.
Speaking objective: Expressing opinions.
Vocabulary objective: Identifying verb, noun, and adjective forms within word families.
Grammar objective: Auxiliary verbs in questions.
Pronunciation objective: Intonation in questions with “or.”
Critical thinking objective: Integrate information from multiple sources; identify/evaluate qualities;
similarities/differences in relationships.
COURSE REQUIREMENTS/EVALUATION:
COURSE OBJECTIVES/ASSESSMENT MEASURES
COURSE OBJECTIVES
ASSESSMENT MEASURES
1.Predict content and identify main ideas and
details with 70% accuracy in audio presented at
level-appropriate speed.
1.Oral/written tests.
2.Identify and use relevant, level-and contentappropriate pronunciation and intonation with
70% accuracy in oral presentations.
2.Oral reports, surveys, interviews, debates, and
role plays presented in class or via video
recordings; written tests.
3.Identify and use standard grammatical forms
with 70% accuracy in speaking and writing.
3.Oral reports, surveys, interviews, debates, and
role plays presented in class or via video recording;
written tests.
4.Integrate information from multiple sources with
70% accuracy for use in oral presentations.
4. Oral reports, surveys, interviews, debates and
role plays presented in class or via video recording;
written tests.
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