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 Department:    ELA

 Course #:    50

 Credits:    9

 Variable:     No

 IUs:    9

 CIP:    320303

 EPC:    n/a

 REV:    2024

 Course Description  

ELA students with clearly defined academic goals will take an intensive course for English language learners with an emphasis on sentence structure, academic vocabulary development, grammar skills, and reading strategies that will prepare students for ELA 60.

 Prerequisite  

Prerequisite: CASAS and CaMLA testing and permission of ELA and EAP department chairs.

Contact Hours (based on 11 week quarter)

Lecture: 99

Lab: 0

Other: 0

Systems: 0

Clinical: 0

Intent: Distribution Requirement(s) Status:  

Academic N/A  

Equivalencies At Other Institutions

Learning Outcomes

After completing this course, the student will be able to:

1. Produce simple sentences that use subjects, verbs, objects, complements, and prepositional phrases.
2. Use simple tenses to write about past, present, and future events using both regular and irregular verbs.
3. Correctly spell and use level-appropriate academic vocabulary.
4. Identify and use parts of speech including nouns, pronouns, verbs, adverbs, adjectives, prepositions, and conjunctions.
5. Use count and non-count nouns; articles; coordinating conjunctions; and modals of permission.
6. Use there is/there are in sentences.
7. Paraphrase sentences and write one-sentence summaries of assigned readings.
8. Effectively revise and edit sentences through peer revision, or tutor visits, or instructor feedback.
9. Read and write about ELL novels, or non-fiction, or short stories.
10. Read academic texts using appropriate reading strategies or Reading Apprenticeship Routines from Reading for Understanding by Schoenbach, Greenleaf, and Murphy (2012).
11. Demonstrate global citizenship, critical thinking, and metacognition.

General Education Learning Values & Outcomes

Revised August 2008 and affects outlines for 2008 year 1 and later.

Course Contents

1. Sentence Structure
2. Parts of speech
3. Simple verb tenses
4. Spelling and level-appropriate academic vocabulary
5. Paraphrasing and summarizing
6. Revision and editing
7. Reading