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

ELA 010 - ELA A (ESL Level 3)


Credits: 1-11
LEC hours per week: 9
LAB hours per week: 4
This is an integrated beginning course for English Language Acquisitions 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. The English Language Proficiency standards as well as the Career and College Readiness Standards were used in the course design based on level 3 indicators. Formerly: ESL 010.
Course Outcomes:
  • Ask and answer questions about key details in a text.
  • Identify the main topic and retell key details of a text.
  • Write informative/explanatory texts which name a topic, supply some facts about the topic, and provide some sense of closure.
  • Write narratives which 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.
  • With guidance and support, use a variety of digital tools to produce and publish writing, including in collaboration with peers.
  • Participate in collaborative conversations with diverse partners in large and small groups.
  • Confirm 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.
  • Demonstrate command of the conventions of English grammar and usage when writing or speaking.
  • Understand that the three digits of a three-digit number represent amounts of hundreds, tens, and ones.
  • Represent and solve problems involving addition and subtraction, multiplication, and division.
  • Understand the meaning of and use the equal sign.
  • Illustrate fractions as numbers and describe a real-world application.
  • Use quantitative reasoning effectively as demonstrated by ability to interpret and draw inferences from tables, formulas, and graphs.
  • Set educational goals as they relate to role as a worker, citizen, and family member; report progress on these goals; and revise and update goals 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. Study skills
  18. The American education system
  19. Libraries and library resources
  20. Navigating the community
  21. Health and wellness