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2023-2024 WWCC College Catalog 
    
2023-2024 WWCC College Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

IELP 060 - Multi-Level IELP


Credits: 1-11
LEC hours per week: 11
This is an integrated course for beginning Intensive English Language (IELP) students. In the pursuit of reaching higher educational needs, students improve reading, writing, speaking, listening, grammar, basic math, and digital literacy skills in real life contexts including identifying job and work-related abilities.
Course Outcomes:
  • Ask and answer questions about key details in a text.
  • Identify the main topic and retell key details of a text.
  • Write infqrmative/explanatorytexts in which they name a topic, supply some facts about the topic, and provide some sense of closure.
  • Write narratives in which they recount two or more appropriately sequenced events, include some details regarding what happened, use temporal words to signal event order, and provide some sense of closure.
  • Use a variety of digital tools to produce and publish writing with guidance and support, including in collaboration with peers.
  • Participate in collaborative conversations with diverse partners in small and larger groups.
  • Assess understanding of a text read aloud or information presented orally or through other media by asking and answering questions about key details and requesting clarification if something is not understood.
  • Speak audibly and express thoughts, feelings, and ideas clearly.
  • Produce complete sentences when appropriate to task and situation.
  • Practice the conventions of English grammar and usage when writing or speaking.
  • Interpret the place value of digits of a three-digit number as hundreds, tens, and ones.
  • Represent and solve problems involving addition and subtraction, multiplication, and division.
  • Use the equal sign effectively.
  • Illustrate fractions as numbers and describe a real-world application.
  • Interpret information in tables, formulas, and graphs.
  • Set educational goals as they relate to their roles as workers, citizens, and family members; report progress on these goals; and revise and update them quarterly.
Course Topics:
  1. Writing basics
  2. Washington state history
  3. U.S. history and citizenship
  4. Interpersonal communication
  5. Job search and interviewing
  6. Work readiness
  7. Environmental issues
  8. Effective presentations
  9. Personal inventory
  10. Career exploration
  11. Cross cultural communication
  12. Study skills
  13. Math basics
  14. Budgeting and consumer economics
  15. Contemporary world problems
  16. Computer skills
  17. The American education system
  18. Libraries and library resources
  19. Navigating the community
  20. Health and wellness