ESL: Port of Entry Full-time Program Advanced Level
This is the advanced course designed to provide non-native students with the academic, linguistic, verbal, aural, and note-taking skills necessary to succeed in higher education. Students apply their grammatical, oral, and listening skills to pre-collegiate materials. This class will familiarize the listener with the major rhetorical patterns of formal academic and spoken English and provide a variety of task-oriented activities that will make their listening, verbal, and note-taking skills stronger. Topics and genres are varied corresponding to college curricula in the United States.
Upon successful completion of the course, students will be able to:
- Recognize various rhetorical styles speakers use in presenting information
- Understand a speaker's tone, attitude, and use of certain expressions to communicate main ideas
- Formulate and report on in class surveys
- Determine stance and meaning of speakers
- Identify and use persuasive language common in debates
- Distinguish fact from opinion in a listening
- Predict examination questions and learn how to answer them
- Recognize and practice the skills of acquiescence and reservation
- Analyze figurative language
- Effectively employ skimming and scanning techniques to read and answer questions faster
- Recognize and use parallel structures, coherence, and cohesion in their writing
- Identify the different types of expository essays
- Compose expository essay
- Predict content of reading text
- Synthesize information from a variety of sources to utilize in their writing
- Understand the authors' purposes in different texts
