Syllabus 0356

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Course Description

ESOL. 0356, ADVANCED Conversation

"ESOL 0356, a continuation of ESOL 0349. This course is designed to encourage students’ use of high-level grammatical structures and vocabulary skills. Students are required to present an oral book report, and oral report of a personal, off-campus interview, and an oral research report."

Prerequisites

A satisfactory score on the CELSA or successful completion of ESOL 0349

Course Goals (includes competencies, incorporation of SCANS, etc.)

ESOL 0356, Advanced Conversation, seeks to prepare students for college level academic or workforce study by accomplishing the following objectives:

•    Students being able to make inferences regarding complex ideas.

•    Students continuing to refine their stress and intonation skills.

•    Students continuing to refine note-taking skills, and being able to use their notes to summarize in both oral and written form.

•    Students being able to function in every day academic interactions

Instructor Information

Not available

Textbook Information

Textbook:
• Advanced Listening Comprehension, 2nd ed., Dunkel, Pialorsi, Kozyrev (Heinle & Heinle)

Class Sets that can be used for Level Four Conversation. Not all of these may be available at every campus.

- Consider the Issues, Numrich
- The Non-Stop Discussion Book, Rooks
- Discussion Starters, Folse
- The Real Thing, Kendall
- Trial by Jury, Kling

Lab Requirements (if any)

One of the five instructional hours per week is an audio lab hour in which students listen to recorded lectures to improve note-taking skills, or work on pronunciation practices as directed by the instructor.

Students with Disabilities

Students who require reasonable accommodations for disabilities are encouraged to report to Disability Counselor to make necessary arrangements. Faculty are only authorized to provide accommodations requested by the Disability Support Services Office.

Academic Honesty

Any form of copying, cheating, or plagiarism will result in a 0 for the assignment. See the HCCS Student Handbook.

Attendance and Withdrawal Policies

Students are not allowed more than eight absences over the semester. Any absence beyond that may cause them to be dropped from class. See the HCCS Student Handbook.

Course Requirements and Grading Policy

Course Outcomes

    After taking ESOL 0356, Advanced Conversation, the student should:

1.    Show proficiency in recognizing and producing linguistic structures appropriate for the following situations: complaints, apologies, requests, commands, offers, refusals, and complements;

2.    Be able to successfully prepare and deliver a 20 minute oral presentation and answer questions from classmates afterwards;

3.    Participate in pairs, small groups, and large groups which are discussing current issues and relevant topics;

4.    Be able to deliver an oral summary of a written text or a brief spoken passage typically found in an academic setting;

5.    Be able to be understood by someone with little or no exposure to non-native speakers of English.

SUGGESTED GRADE PERCENTAGES

Participation	20%
Quizzes and Tests	30%
Oral Presentations	40%
Final Exam	10%
Total:	100%

Testing

Students in ESOL 0356 will :

•   give at least three graded oral presentations
•   complete a minimum of three tests using the notes taken from taped or guest lectures
•   give at least one group presentation. This can be, debate, panel discussion, etc.
•   a final examination

Make-up policy

If students miss a test or a quiz, they must arrange with the instructor for a make-up outside of class time and before the end of one week from the day they missed.

Projects, Assignments, Portfolios, Service Learning, Internships, etc.

An instructor may choose to include projects or assignments to reinforce the material covered in class.

Course Content

Students are given topics to work on individually, in pairs, or in small groups for in-class presentations. Students learn note-taking skills on a variety of topics in the audio lab as outlined in the sample course calendar below.

Course Calendar with Reading Assignments

ESOL 0356 Advanced Conversation
SAMPLE WEEKLY COURSE OUTLINE

Advanced Listening Comprehension Second Edition (ALC)
Dunkel, Pialorsi, and Kozyrev, Heinle & Heinle
class set of Discussion Starters (DS), Folse, University of Michigan

Week 1:	Chapter 1, The End of an Empire, ALC; Unit 10, Save Our Planet, DS
Week 2:	Chapter 1, Continued; Chapter 2, The Egyptian Pyramids, ALC; Unit 12, When Cultures Clash, DS
Week 3:	Chapter 2, Continued; Unit 14, Getting Older, DS
Week 4:	Chapter 3, John F. Kennedy, ALC; Unit 16, Should Drugs Be Legalized?, DS
Week 5:	Chapter 3, Continued; Chapter 4, Indira Gandhi, ALC; Unit 19, AIDS, DS
Week 6:	Chapter 4, Continued; Unit 21, Gun Control, DS
Week 7:	Guest Lecture - U.S. History Chapter 5, The Dust Bowl, ALC; Unit 23, Drinking and Driving, DS
Week 8:	Chapter 5, Continued; Chapter 6, The Great Flood of 1993, ALC
Week 9:	Chapter 6, Continued; Guest Lecture - Psychology
Week 10:	Chapter 7, The Women's Movement, ALC; Unit 31, You Can Be the Judge: May I Die?, DS
Week 11:	Chapter 7, Continued; Unit 2, Smoking or Nonsmoking?, DS; Chapter 8, The Men's Movement, ALC
Week 12:	Chapter 8, Continued; Unit 4, Combat Roles in the Military, DS
Week 13:	Chapter 9, The Men's Movement, ALC; Guest Lecture - Government
Week 14:	Chapter 9, Continued; Unit 8, Gender Roles in 1850? 1950? 2050?
Week 15:	Chapter 10, Gender and Communication, ALC; Unit 26, Animals and Human
Week 16:	Final Exams

The units from Discussion Starters were chosen because they can serve as good debate topics; feel free to substitute other units. In addition to working in the two textbooks and having debates, students can also do role plays, sing songs, do pronunciation exercises, and play language games; furthermore, students can do oral grammar practice correlated with the chapter they are studying in grammar class.

Other Student Information (clubs, tutoring, web resources, etc.)

Tutoring is availble for students at instructional sites where Intensive English is offered. Additional on line and computerized resources are also available in computer labs and libraries.

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