The instructor will facilitate, observe and evaluate students' participation in communicative activities. Whole and small group instruction will be combined with individual assistance and student directed learning. Students will participate in the setting of goals by identifying their communicative and language development needs, and will participate in the selection of learning activities.
Communicative situations arising from themes and topics common to EASL 0154 and the corequisite EASL 0144.
1 a. Language functions, such as identifying, reporting, clarifying, requesting, disagreeing, expressed
in different ways in a variety of routine settings.
b. conversation signals, such as initiating conversation, changing the subject, interrupting, closing a
conversation.
2. Use register (formal, informal language)
3. Cultural appropriateness (communicating in accordance with cultural expectations).
4. Language skills (grammar, sentence structure, vocabulary, pronunciation).
Within relevant educational, employment, personal and social contexts, students will:
l. communicate in a variety of routine settings
2. use formal and informal language appropriately
3. communicate in culturally appropriate ways
4. express themselves comprehensibly
This course is a college preparatory course and students will be marked on a MASTERY basis. Mastery will
be granted to students who achieve over 70% on a series of in-class and out-of-class assessments.
Textbooks and Materials to be Purchased by Students
Materials to be supplied.
Students may be required to purchase a text and blank cassette tapes.
Instructor Permission
EASL 0144
EASL 0254 or 0255