[SOLVED] ESL 1700 HIGH-INTERMEDIATE FALL 2024

ENGLISH LANGUAGE STUDIES

ESL 1700 HIGH-INTERMEDIATE

NELP 1700-A34

FALL 2024

COURSE DESCRIPTION

ESL 1700 is a student-centered high-intermediate ESL class, which has two goals. The first goal is to provide you with the opportunity to further develop your abilities to read and write at a college level, while improving your English grammar and vocabulary.

Secondly, this class will give you the opportunity to develop your academic studying skills and critical thinking through readings by authors, art critics, and designers.

REQUIRED MATERIALS

•    Line Color Form, by Jesse Day

•    A bilingual dictionary with reliable information on parts of speech, countability of

nouns, transitive and intransitive verbs, irregular forms, pronunciation, and example sentences.

LEARNING OUTCOMES

By the successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

1. Identify and write with basic rhetorical structures, relevant grammar and vocabulary to express their ideas.

2. Generate specific support within paragraphs and essays.

3. Identify and correct sentence structure errors, such as run-ons, fragments, and comma splices.

4. Recognize plagiarism and incorrect citation of outside sources.

5. Correctly format Chicago-style. footnotes and bibliography.

6. Read non-technical material for main ideas with minimal help from dictionaries.

7. Identify an author’s point of view and purpose.

8. Participate in informal discussions in and out of the classroom as well as give regular presentations without reading material.

9. Actively participate as an audience member of a presentation.

10. Follow directions, and ask for clarification from an instructor about assignments.

COURSE REQUIREMENTS

Participation and attendance

Homework

Presentation

Formal writing assignments

Tests and quizzes

FINAL GRADE CALCULATION

•    Participation                                  40% of grade

•     Projects (papers                            60% of grade

and presentations)

Tests, quizzes, in-class writing Weekly homework

If you have too many latenesses, partial absences, and/or late or missed homework, I will lower your grade one step (for example, from an A- to a B+).

COURSE OUTLINE

Chronology and topics are likely to change according to the needs of the class.

Additional assignments will be given on a week to week basis to align with ongoing work.

Holiday:   November 29    Thanksgiving Break