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Advanced Level Classes
There are 2 levels of Advanced/College Level Classes (Advanced and College Level) plus Advanced Electives.
Advanced
ESL 340: Advanced Multiskills
An advanced English course for non-native speakers, incorporating academic skills. Emphasis is on further development in listening, speaking, reading, writing, grammar, and vocabulary in general and academic contexts. Recommended Preparataion: ESL 331
ESL 345: Advanced Writing I
Designed for the non-native speaker of English focusing on advanced-level writing skills. Emphasis is on gaining control of complex sentence patterns and standard rhetorical patterns. Reading, vocabulary, and grammar activities support and supplement writing instruction. Required Prerequisite: ESL 331 or 336 (or placement on ESL Assessment Test)
ESL 347: Advanced Grammar Review
Begins the advanced, rapidly-paced grammar sequence for non-native speakers of English. Emphasis is on structures particularly difficult for non-native speakers such as the English verb system in all tenses and aspects, including passive voice, modals, and modal-like expressions. Writing of original sentences, applying correct structure and stresses appropriate punctuations. Recommended Preparation: ESL 331
ESL 357: Grammar Review for College (Advanced Grammer Review II)
Completes the advanced, rapidly-paced grammar sequence for non-native speakers of English. Emphasis is on structures particularly difficult for speakers of English as a second language such as gerunds and infinitives in both active and passive voice, and noun, adjective, and adverb clauses, including clauses of condition. Writing of original compound and complex sentences with appropriate transitions and punctuation is stressed. Recommended Preparation: ESL 331 AND 347
College Level
ESL 350: Essential Academic Skills
Advanced academic English course for non-native speakers designed to improve reading comprehension and written communication skills necessary for college-level work. Summarize articles, take notes on lectures from a variety of academic disciplines, master specialized vocabulary, and discuss current issues. Develop fluency and confidence by writing and rewriting paragraphs and short essays. Paraphrasing, quoting, citing, and documenting are included. Required Prerequisite: ESL 340 or 345 (or placement on ESL Assessment Test)
Advanced Electives
ESL 342: Advanced Conversation
Completes the ESL conversation series and aids the ESL student in fluency in both formal and informal conversation in American English within a variety of societal contexts: social, work, and school situations. Topics may be of a controversial nature. Recommended Preparation: ESL 331 or 332
ESL 343: Advanced Pronunciation
Completes the ESL pronunciation sequence. Emphasis on accent reduction, pronunciation accuracy, auditory discrimination, conversation techniques, and selective listening skills. Develops stress distinctions and intonation patterns in order to communicate intent and meaning. Recommended Preparation: ESL 333
ESL 344: Idioms and Expressions in American English
An advanced vocabulary course focusing on the idioms and expressions of American English. Designed to help non-native speakers understand and use, in both speech and writing, common and useful English idioms and expressions. Introduces phrasal verbs and collocations. Recommended Preparation: ESL 331
ESL 346: Advanced Writing for Work
Designed to improve non-native speakers’ reading comprehension and written communication skills necessary for advanced-level work using “real world” texts. Students summarize examples of American business and technical communication, design, write, and analyze different communication examples of memoranda, letters, descriptions, instructions, and other reports focusing on impact, accuracy, and clarity in relation to audience and purpose. Students also review sentence structure and grammar as needed. Recommended Preparation: ESL 331 or 336
ESL 354: Vocabulary Skills for College (Advanced Vocabulary)
Designed to help non-native speakers of English expand and acquire a college-level vocabulary and idiomatic expressions necessary for academic and vocational courses. Recommended Preparation: ESL 340
ESL 355: ESL Reading for College: American Literature (Advanced Reading)
Introduces advanced ESL students to techniques for understanding and appreciating excerpts and complete works of fiction, drama, and poetry by American writers. Students write summaries, journal entries, and character analyses and take part in discussions, dramatic activities, and presentations in response to specific works studied. Recommended Preparation: ESL 340 or 345
ESL 356: Advancd Success Strategies for ESL Students
This course is designed to improve advanced ESL students’ academic language skills and likelihood of academic success. Using lecture and textbook materials from a college level course, students will develop study and test-taking strategies, academic discipline-specific vocabulary, classroom participation skills, reading, writing, and note-taking skills.
ESL 358: Listening and Note-Taking Skills for College
Designed to prepare foreign-language speakers for mainstream college courses. Emphasis is on note-taking, outlining, comprehension of spoken information, questioning, and paraphrasing techniques necessary for class participation. Recommended Preparation: ESL 340
ESL 359: American Language and Culture Through Film
In this content-based course, students are introduced to selected periods of American history and aspects of American culture through film. Discussion and writing assignments are based on background readings which complement these films. Film provides students with visual, kinesthetic and auditory modes of learning which makes it a highly effective method of enhancing second or foreign-language acquisition. It also offers opportunities to learn idiomatic expression, pronunciation and vocabulary as well as improve listening comprehension while gaining insight into American culture. Recommended Preparation: ESL 331
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