IELP 056 - IELP Listening and Speaking: Low-Intermediate

Credits: 1-5
LEC hours per week: 5
This is an academic Listening and Speaking course for non-native speakers of English in the Intensive English Language Program (IELP). In this course, students will improve listening and speaking skills by engaging with classmates, instructor, and course materials. Students will practice the language necessary for gathering information from a variety of sources, analyzing it, connecting it to personal knowledge, and logically supporting their opinions with accurate language. This course includes daily discussions, assignments, quizzes, and tests and is in accordance with College and Career Readiness Standards for Adult Education, Level B.
Course Outcomes:

Apply conversational skills in order to participate in a range of collaborative discussions (one-on-one, in groups, and teacher-led) with diverse partners.
Evaluate the speakers intention/purpose and opinion.
Summarize the central ideas, key words, and supporting details of a lecture, presentation, listening, etc.
Retell a longer, more detailed sequence of events or steps in a process, with a clear sequential or chronological structure.
Deliver oral presentations.
Ask and answer questions to clarify ideas and conclusions.
Apply techniques to identify and correct individual pronunciation issues.
Apply techniques to improve overall speaking skills, e.g. clarity and appropriate pace, volume, intonation, tone, and body language.
Use appropriate responses in a variety of social situations.
Use a wider range of complex general academic and content-specific words and phrases.
Using context, questioning, and an increasing knowledge of English morphology, identify the meaning of general academic and content-specific words and phrases, figurative and connotative language, and a growing number of idiomatic expressions in spoken and written texts about a variety of topics, experiences, or events.
Use a variety of more complex transitions to link major sections of speech and text and to clarify relationships among events and ideas.
Produce and expand simple, compound, and complex sentences.

Course Topics:

Topics are selected using College Career and Readiness Standards (CCRS) for Speaking and Listening: Intonation, stress, articulation, conversation skills, and listening comprehension are taught in cultural context from dialogues, songs, listenings, formal/informal speeches and lectures, and short narratives.