Exit Level Student Learning Outcomes

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

• Demonstrate fluency in conversing about both academic and non-academic topics
• Demonstrate fluency in “small talk” in non-academic situations
• Follow and participate in conversations
• Support answers with clearly related reasons and examples
• Produce consonant and vowel sounds, and manage suprasegmentals
• Demonstrate ability to give short impromptu speeches
• Give summaries of academic material
• Use situationally appropriate grammar to narrate, explain, describe, and summarize ideas or events in the past, present, or future.
• Use appropriate vocabulary on a range of non-personal topics including current events, and topics covered readings

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

• Utilize academic and content vocabulary to understand an unsimplified academic lecture
• Use strategies to recognize context clues in order to understand unfamiliar vocabulary
• Listen for and recognize target vocabulary.
• Listen to oral discourse and respond appropriately
• Prove knowledge of American cultural issues and American history
• Identify topics, main ideas, and supporting details of unsimplified academic lectures.
• Use notes from an unsimplified academic lecture to prepare for and answer test questions.
• Integrate information based on notes from multiple sources and use for test preparation
• Use notes to reconstruct an unsimplified academic lecture

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

• Understand all verb tenses
• Use all verb tenses (excluding Past Perfect Progressive, Future Perfect, and Future Perfect Progressive)
• Recognize and produce sentences with noun, adjective, and adverb clauses
• Use conditionals
• Comprehend and produce sentences with gerunds and infinitives
• Recognize and use modals of polite requests, necessity, advisability, expectations, suggestions, degrees of certainly (hedging expressions) in simple and progressive forms
• Use quoted and reported speech
• Use advanced sentence structures (simple, compound, complex statements and questions) to add clarity to writing
• Use parallel structure
• Demonstrate written coherence through organization, development, and word choice
• Express individual ideas in different modes of academic essays
• Identify and edit structural common errors including comma splices, run-ons, and fragments
• Analyze, revise, and edit own writing
• Use appropriate citation format for academic writing
• Correctly incorporate and cite outside sources in the Summary-Response Essay homework assignment
• Summarize and paraphrase authentic articles and sources
• Respond to readings in written form
• Demonstrate advanced critical thinking skill in writing

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

• Understand the structure of a text by answering comprehension questions and completing graphic organizers
• Understand & identify pronoun reference
• Comprehend academic texts & answer various types of comprehension / critical thinking questions, including ones in which the student is expected to paraphrase
• Identify the best summary of a text
• Read and interpret infographics, such as charts, graphs, maps, diagrams, illustrations, etc.
• Recognize & identify organizational patterns: listing, sequence, comparison/contrast, problem/solution, cause/effect, extended definition
• Make valid inferences
• Read critically to understand the author’s purpose and point of view
• Distinguish between facts and opinions
• Use a graphic organizer to accurately analyze readings
• Recognize documentation of sources
• Accurately discern the meaning of vocabulary (words & collocations) based on context.
• Understand and identify word forms based on the context the word is used in
• Identify connotation of vocabulary items in context

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

• Understand the structure of a text by answering comprehension questions and completing graphic organizers
• Understand & identify pronoun reference
• Comprehend academic texts & answer various types of comprehension / critical thinking questions, including ones in which the student is expected to paraphrase
• Identify the best summary of a text
• Recognize & identify organizational patterns: listing, sequence, comparison/contrast, problem/solution, cause/effect, extended definition
• Make valid inferences
• Reading critically to understand author's purpose and point of view
• Distinguish between facts and opinions
• Read and interpret infographics, such as charts, graphs, maps, diagrams, illustrations, etc.
• Recognizing documentation of sources
• Accurately discern the meaning of vocabulary (words & collocations) based on context.
• Understand and identify word forms based on the context the word is used in
• Identify connotation of vocabulary items in context

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

• Use grammatical structures appropriate for advanced ESL writing
• Use advanced sentence structures (simple, compound, complex statements and questions) to add clarity to writing
• Use parallel structure
• Demonstrate written coherence throughout organization, development, and word choice
• Express individual ideas in different modes of academic essays
• Identify and edit structural common errors including comma splices, run-ons, and fragments
• Analyze, revise, and edit own writing
• Use appropriate citation format for academic writing
• Summarize, synthesize, and paraphrase authentic articles and sources
• Respond to readings in written form
• Demonstrate advanced critical thinking skill in writing