138 Student Learning Outcomes

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

• Complete basic dictation exercises.
• Answer simple questions based on a short listening activity.
• List basic information in short listening activity.
• Identify order in basic English discourse.
• Connect main ideas to supporting details.
• Follow more complex oral explanations/directions.
• Acquire basic vocabulary to participate in life-skills based conversations.
• Spell key words at level.
• State point of view.
• Start, maintain, and end a conversation.
• Use at-level* vocabulary on familiar/personal topics.
• Use situationally appropriate grammar in the context of a short conversation.
• Respond to questions in a comprehensible manner.
• Produce consonant and vowel sounds.

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

• Comprehend and use the correct parts of speech and word order in sentences.
• Comprehend and use to be and to have in present, past and future tenses.
• Comprehend and use present progressive and simple present with adverbs of frequency and with prepositional time phrases.
• Comprehend and use simple past and past progressive.
• Connect main ideas to supporting details.
• Comprehend and use simple future and be going to.
• Comprehend and use modals in the present (and could, had to in past).
• Comprehend and use count and non-count nouns and common quantifiers.
• Comprehend and use pronouns and possessive adjectives.
• Comprehend and use basic infinitive and gerund structures.
• Comprehend and use comparative and superlative adjectives and adverbs.
• Write simple sentences (affirmative, negative, and interrogative) with correct capitalization, punctuation, word order and correct subject-verb agreement.
• Write compound sentences (but, so, and, or) correctly.
• Write complex sentences with time clauses (after, before, when, while) and with because.
• Write a paragraph (10-12 sentences)
  • with sentences using at level vocabulary.
  • that has correct paragraph format
  • that has a topic sentence, supporting sentences, and a concluding sentence.
  • that show a logical flow of ideas.
  • that has transition words.
• Recognize and correct mistakes in capitalization, punctuation, sentence structure, verb forms, and other grammatical points covered at this level.

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

• Use previewing and predicting skills.
• Identify the topic of a reading.
• Identify the main idea of reading.
• Identify the supporting details of a reading.
• Identify the noun a pronoun refers to.
• Identify the part of speech of a word (n, v, adj., adv.) and be able to choose the correct word form in a sentence.
• Know and apply common prefixes and suffixes.
• Identify the complete subject and verb of a sentence.
• Answer comprehension questions.
• Understand the first 900 most common English words.
• Guess the meaning of new words from the context.
• Learn frequent collocations and identify the meaning of the collocations.
• Read verbs in simple and progressive past and present as well as the future. Recognize verb tenses: past, present, and future.

* “At-level” is described by the aggregate grammar and vocabulary in the Objectives and Student Learning Outcomes for the Beginning English II (DAS 138) curriculum.