Course outline15A - El Camino College



COMPTON COMMUNITY COLLEGE

COURSE OUTLINE

Course Number: ESL 15A Division: ESL and Foreign Languages

Course Title: Advanced English for the Non-Native English Speaker

Hours Lecture: 5 Hours Lab: 0 Weeks: 18 Units: 5

Credit Status:

AA/AS: Non-Degree: X Certificate: Non-Credit:

Transfer Code: UC: CSU: None: X

Prerequisite or Corequisite: Recommended: Completion of ESL 9A and ESL 9B with minimum grades of “C”. Concurrent enrollment in ESL 15B and ESL 15C.

Catalog Description

This is an intensive course designed for advanced ESL students. Its purpose is to develop reading and writing skills in English through the acquisition of various grammatical structures commonly used in the English language. The emphasis will be on the usage of irregular verbs, gerunds and infinitives, and the active and passive voice. Concurrent enrollment in ESL15B and ESL 15C is recommended.

Needs/Justifications/Goals

This course helps the non-native English learner to achieve reasonable competency in English by utilizing the learned grammatical structures to enhance reading comprehension and develop writing skills

Course Outline Prepared by:

S. Lazar/C. Aguilar Date: 9/14/05

Curriculum Committee Chair: Division Chair:

Saul Panski Shemiran Lazar

SENATE APPROVAL DATE: 11/01/05 BOARD APPROVAL DATE: 11/22/05

TOP NO. 4930.80 USOE NO. 00000000 CLASSIFICATION T5/55001(A)(1)(C2)

CAN NO. N/A SAM CODE E

Compton Community College September 14, 2005

Course Outline for ESL 15A

Advanced English for the Non-Native English Speaker

I. Catalog Description

ESL 15A, Advanced English for the Non-Native English Speaker 5 Units

This is an intensive course designed for advanced ESL students. Its purpose is to develop reading and writing skills in English through the acquisition of various grammatical structures commonly used in the English language. The emphasis will be on the usage of irregular verbs, gerunds and infinitives, and the active and passive voice. Concurrent enrollment in ESL15B and ESL 15C is recommended.

II. Expected Outcomes for Students

Upon successful completion of the course students should be able to perform the following activities with 70% accuracy.

A. The student will be able to correctly conjugate the most common irregular

English verbs in the present, past, progressive, and perfect tenses in written English sentences and conversation.

B. The student will be able to appropriately utilize gerunds/gerund phrases as subjects and objects and participles as adjectives in written English sentences and conversation.

C. The student will be able to identify which verbs are followed by the infinitive, the gerund, the gerund/infinitive, or a specific preposition and use them appropriately in written English sentences and in conversation.

D. The student will be able to change a sentence from active to passive or passive to active voice and to identify those sentences which can not be changed to passive because they contain an intransitive verb.

E. The student will be able to analyze a written passage and appropriately apply the active or passive voice to its content sentences.

III. Course Content

A. The four principal parts of the irregular verbs:

1. The base form

2. The past form

3. The past participle form

4. The present participle form

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B. Gerunds and their three nominal functions:

1. Subject of the verb

2. Object of the verb

3. Object of the preposition

C. Gerunds and infinitives

D. Verbs used with specific prepositions

E. The active and the passive voice

IV. Methods of Presentation:

A. Lecture

B. Pronunciation drills of certain phrases for the purpose of internalizing grammatical patterns that are under emphasis and are included in the phrases

C. Flash cards – specifically for object gerunds that follow certain sets of verbs:[verb + preposition] or [adjective + preposition]

D. Practice exercises

E. Cooperative learning activities

F. Chalkboard work and exercises

V. Assignments and Methods of Evaluation:

A. Class discussion

B. Demonstration of analytical skills of various grammatical structures studied throughout the course

C. Class participation

D. Chalkboard exercises

E. Homework assignments

F. Quizzes, exams, and final exam

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VI. Textbook(s):

Fuchs, Marjorie, Margaret Bonner and Miriam Westheimer. Focus on Grammar: An

Intermediate Course for Reference and Practice. 2nd Edition. White Plains,

NY: Addison Wesley Longman, Inc. 2000.

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