XESS 0516F ESL College Transition Listening and Speaking Level F

This course is designed to prepare students for academic listening and speaking and draws heavily from the materials in the Reading/Vocabulary course and classroom observations.

Credits

5 hours

Course Learning Outcomes

Students will participate in extended group research projects, and communicate main ideas and related details in oral presentations about a variety of informational topics, fully developing the topic and integrating graphics or multimedia so others can understand. Students will participate in academic discussions using a wide range of advanced academic vocabulary and content-specific words and phrases, a wide variety of complex phrases and clauses and produce and expand simple, compound and complex sentences using complex transitions. Students will also analyze the reasoning in persuasive spoken texts. By the end of this level, students will be able to understand main ideas in academic lectures and understand spoken language comfortably, function in courses with native speakers, and speak at near-natural pace with only occasional pronunciation, word choice, or grammar errors.