136 Student Learning Outcomes

A student who successfully completes this course will be able to:

• Identify topics in basic English discourse.
• Follow along with/read while listening to simple stories and/or conversations.
• Complete basic cloze passages and do simple dictations.
• Identify details in basic English discourse.
• Follow simple oral explanations/directions.
• Spell key vocabulary words at-level.
• Understand and respond to basic questions.
• Use at-level* vocabulary on familiar/personal topics.
• Produce most consonant and vowel sounds. Demonstrates awareness of suprasegmentals.
• Acquire sufficient basic vocabulary to participate in simple life-skills based conversations.
• Use survival English.
• Use situationally appropriate grammar in the context of a guided conversation.
• Follow and participate in conversations at level*.

A student who successfully completes this course will be able to:

• Comprehend and use correct word order, and parts of speech in simple sentence patterns (affirmative, negative, and interrogative).
• Understand and use to be, to have and there in present and past.
• Understand and use simple present and present progressive.
• Understand and use adverbs of frequency.
• Understand and use simple past.
• Identify and use count and non-count nouns.
• Understand and use subject, object pronouns and possessive adjectives.
• Understand and use prepositions of place and time.
• Identify and understand time clauses with before, after, and when.
• Write a complete sentence (statement, negative sentence, question) that:
  • starts with a capital letter.
  • ends with the correct punctuation.
  • has the correct word order.
  • has the correct subject-verb (pronoun) agreement.
  • contains the correct present or past tense.
• Identify and correct mistakes of punctuation, subject-verb agreement, word order, and tense (simple present, simple past, and present progressive) at the sentence level.
• Write several sentences (simplified paragraph) that show a logical flow of ideas.

A student who successfully completes this course will be able to:

• Use the first 450 most common English words.
• Identify the 5 most common prefixes and suffixes and learn the meaning of the prefix and part of speech of the suffix.
• Identify articles (a, an, the).
• Identify the subject and verb of a sentence.
• Identify the part of speech of a word (v, n, adj, adv).
• Identify the noun a pronoun refers to.
• Read verbs in simple present, past, present progressive and future.
• Answer simple comprehension questions (who, what, when, where, why).
• Identify topics/categories.
• Put sentences into logical order/sequence.
• Respond to questions with a short answer.

* “At-level” is described by the aggregate grammar and vocabulary in the Objectives and Student Learning Outcomes for the Beginning English I (DAS 136) curriculum.