ESOL0730

This course provides foundational speaking and listening support for students who need help in both an academic and daily setting. Students will demonstrate accurate pronunciation and develop comprehension skills for lectures and discussions. Students will develop cultural knowledge related to Minnesota and the United States to communicate verbally in US academic settings. To maximize student learning, this course has been developed to be taken concurrently with ESOL 0710 and ESOL 0720. 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

• Demonstrate comprehension of classroom and daily directions.
• Produce appropriate pronunciation for general intelligibility.
• Formulate requests for clarification.
• Develop understanding of cultural context clues needed to communicate in US culture.
• Model academic and general conversation behavior.
• Develop vocabulary knowledge for academic and general conversations.
• Summarize lectures and discussions.
• Recognize academic language and vocabulary.
• Apply language skills to general topics in-group discussions.
• Demonstrate speaking and listening skills in impromptu situations.