ESOL0710

This course will focus on basic writing and grammar skills. It will help build writing and grammar fluency for academic purposes. The course will emphasize foundational grammatical structures and the mechanics of American English. Students will develop cultural knowledge related to Minnesota and the United States to compose context-appropriate written material. This course will help students develop strategies for continuous language development. To maximize student learning, this course has been developed to be taken with ESOL 0720 and ESOL 0730. This course provides an equitable opportunity for non-native speakers of English to improve the skills necessary to succeed in college-level classes.Student Learning Outcomes

• Use verb tenses with increasing accuracy.
• Memorize irregular verbs.
• Use basic functions of online learning platforms.
• Demonstrate an understanding of cultural context clues needed to create appropriate written materials.
• Formulate affirmative, interrogative, and negative statements with standard grammar.
• Employ basic English grammatical structure.
• Compose simple, compound, and complex sentences.
• Write using various methods of development.
• Use the conventions of academic English to write clear and concise sentences and paragraphs.
• Revise written work for structural, grammatical, and mechanical errors.