English Language Development

This course is designed to help low advanced ESL students develop academic reading skills. Emphasis is on developing reading comprehension, vocabulary, and fluency. Students will read a variety of text types (e.g., short stories, newspaper articles, novels, and nonfiction pieces). This course requires one lab hour per week. Student lab work includes, but is not limited to, the following: completion of computer-assisted activities as well as assigned grammar, vocabulary, reading, writing, and listening exercises. Lecture: 4 hours per week. Lab: 1 hour per week. The course is not open to students who received credit for ESL 540.

This course is designed to help low advanced ESL students develop academic writing skills at the short essay level. Instruction is provided in the following areas: the writing process, sentence structure, vocabulary development, formatting, and mechanics. This course requires one lab hour per week. Student lab work includes, but is not limited to, the following: completion of computer-assisted activities as well as assigned grammar, vocabulary, reading, writing, and listening exercises. Lecture: 4 hours per week. Lab: 1 hour per week. The course is not open to students who received credit for ESL 541.

This course is designed to help students understand and use intermediate grammatical forms in reading, writing, and oral/aural contexts. This course requires one lab hour per week. Student lab work includes, but is not limited to the following: completion of computer-assisted activities as well as assigned grammar, vocabulary, reading, writing, and listening exercises. Lecture: 3 hours per week. Lab: 1 hour per week. The course is not open to students who received credit for ESL 551.

This course prepares students to understand and speak English at the low advanced level. In this course, students continue to develop communicative competence by engaging in a variety of listening and speaking activities. Students will participate in interviews, small group discussions, and presentations. The course is not open to students who received credit for ESL 544.

A pronunciation skills course for all levels of language learners. This course introduces students to Standard American English consonant and vowel sounds, stress, and intonation. Students will practice listening discrimination and production skills at the segmental and suprasegmental levels. The course is not open to students who received credit for ESL 555.

ELD 523 uses fiction and nonfiction texts to develop reading skills and strategies. The emphasis is on improving reading comprehension and efficiency and helping students become critical readers. This course is not open to students who are enrolled in or have received credit for ELDN, ENGL 312, READ 310, or ESL540.

Designed to help students critically analyze texts to use in support of a well-organized, thesis-based essay. Improvement in grammar, mechanics, sentence structure, word choice, and usage of outside sources with MLA formatting is also emphasized.

This course is designed to help students understand and use advanced grammatical forms in reading, writing, and oral/aural contexts. This course requires one lab hour per week. Student lab work includes, but is not limited to, the following: completion of computer-assisted activities as well as assigned grammar, vocabulary, reading, writing, and listening exercises. Lecture: 3 hours per week. Lab: 1 hour per week. The course is not open to students who received credit for ESL 552.

This course prepares students to understand and speak English at the low advanced level. In this course, students continue to develop communicative competence by engaging in a variety of listening and speaking activities. Students will participate in interviews, small group discussions, and presentations. The course is not open to students who received credit for ESL 544.