Objectives

1. Establish goals based on assessments.
2. Compare different cultural attitudes regarding time, space, and authority.
3. Examine American educational practices and expectations for the college classroom.
4. Apply self-efficacy strategies to locate resources to aid learning.
5. Demonstrate metacognitive and self-monitoring strategies while writing.
6. Identify sentence types, sentence patterns, and grammar structures.
7. Compose a variety of sentence structures.
8. Apply editing and proofreading strategies to correct major sentence level errors.
9. Identify in writing the elements of prose and poetry.
10. Respond to various types of literary genre through reflective writing.
11. Construct sentences which paraphrase text information.
12. Identify and paraphrase in writing a passage’s meaning.
13. Identify and paraphrase in writing popular idioms.
14. Identify the elements of a paragraph and practice paragraph writing.

Objectives

1. Establish goals based on assessments.
2. Compare different cultural attitudes in educational practices and expectations with American attitudes.
3. Apply metcognitive and self-monitoring strategies to enhance learning effectiveness.
4. Identify sentence types and expanded grammar structures.
5. Identify the elements of a paragraph.
6. Identify the stages of the writing process.
7. Use the writing process to develop coherent paragraphs.
8. Apply editing and proofreading strategies to correct major writing errors.
9. Identify in writing the elements of different literary genre.
10. Respond to literature through reflective writing.
11. Recognize popular idioms and paraphrase idioms in writing.
12. Use critical thinking to evaluate in writing assigned text and literary readings.
13. Write a summary after reading a passage.

Objectives

1. Set goals based on assessments.
2. Apply strategies for academic and career-related interactions, using verbal and non-verbal expressions.
3. Demonstrate fluency with vowel and consonant patterns for correctly stressed English.
4. Apply pronunciation patterns in the context of conversations, interviews, academic interactions, and career communications.
5. Present an effective academic interaction.
6. Present a speech based on effective communication and pronunciation techniques.
7. Plan goals for continued fluency in spoken communications.

Objectives

1. Establish fluency goals.
2. Apply listening/responding strategies for academic, business, and personal interactions.
3. Demonstrate stress, rhythm, and intonation of standard American English.
4. Create oral projects for academic interactions.
5. Articulate phrasing, pausing, and linking patterns for speaking in academic and community settings.
6. Speak and respond effectively in group interactions.
7. Apply course competencies in planning educational and personal goals.

Objectives

1. Establish writing goals based on assessments.
2. Enhance understanding and appreciation of cultural differences through reading and writing.
3. Apply metacognitive strategies to foster learning.
4. Identify and use text and Internet resources for self-correcting grammar, punctuation, and spelling errors.
5. Explain and use the writing process.
6. Identify and apply paragraph elements in multi-paragraph writing.
7. Identify patterns of organization in written text.
8. Understand the different types of paragraphs and their purposes.
9. Use critical thinking skills to analyze audience and purpose for writing.
10. Identify, explain, and use the features of good writing.
11. Respond in writing to text from different literary genre.
12. Participate with peers to develop, revise, and refine writing.

Objectives

1. Establish fluency goals for writing based on assessments.
2. Choose and adapt study strategies to varied course assignments.
3. Discuss in writing cultural similarities and differences found in general education academic disciplines.
4. Use correct grammar structures and sentence structures to produce clear and effective writing.
5. Analyze varied academic writing tasks.
6. Develop academic vocabulary and use in writing.
7. Demonstrate through writing an understanding of academic writing tasks about general education content from varied disciplines.
8. Use the prewriting and writing process to construct academic writing tasks.
9. Select, evaluate, and use library, Internet, and other resources for academic writing tasks.
10. Construct a research project. 

Objectives

1. Discuss successful academic behaviors and American oratory traditions
2. Apply listening/responding strategies for lectures and academic presentations
3. Implement pronunciation strategies in formal and informal interactions
4. Present formal and informal speech projects
5. Articulate communication patterns in group debates and presentations for academic and career settings, including large audiences
6. Apply self-assessments and formal pre- and post-assessments to analysis of exit competencies

Objectives

Objectives

1. Establish goals based on assessments.
2. Describe American educational practices and expectations for the college classroom.
3. Apply self-efficacy strategies to locate resources to foster active learning.
4. Demonstrate metacognitive and self-monitoring strategies while reading.
5. Read and respond to various types of literary genre.
6. Demonstrate knowledge of phonological rules and word attack skills when reading aloud.
7. Apply effective study and reading strategies.
8. Demonstrate increased fluency and automaticity in oral reading along with improved oral and/or written retelling.
9. Correlate American English pronunciation symbols with the symbols of the International Phonetic Alphabet.
10. Expand vocabulary through reading by using context clues, word parts, and/or a dictionary.
11. Identify and explain popular American idioms.
12. Demonstrate reading comprehension by explaining a passage’s meaning.
13. Analyze and evaluate what has been read for its personal value and application.

Objectives

1. Establish goals based on assessments.
2. Compare different cultural attitudes about educational practices and expectations with American attitudes.
3. Apply metacognitive and self-monitoring strategies to enhance learning effectiveness.
4. Identify the stages of the reading process and demonstrate effective reading strategies.
5. Respond to various types of literary genre through discussion and reflective writing.
6. Discuss and evaluate the worth of ideas found in text.
7. Apply phonological rules and word attack skills when reading aloud.
8. Identify key words and phrases in written text by recognizing English syntax.
9. Expand vocabulary through reading by using context clues, word parts, and/or a dictionary.
10. Identify and explain popular American idioms.
11. Identify topic sentences and supporting details in paragraphs.
12. Create main idea statements from paragraphs with inferred main ideas.
13. Be able to summarize by isolating specific details to support the central point of a passage.

Objectives

1. Establish goals based on assessments.
2. Compare customs, beliefs, and cultural attitudes from other countries to those in the United States.
3. Demonstrate flexible reading rates based on reading purpose and context difficulty.
4. Apply self-monitoring and metacognitive strategies to enhance comprehension and learning effectiveness.
5. Read and respond to various types of writing through summarizing and reflective writing.
6. Demonstrate phonological rules, proper stress patterns and fluency when reading aloud.
7. Identify types of paragraphs and patterns of organization.
8. Discuss and evaluate the worth of ideas found in text.
9. Demonstrate the ability to make inferences, draw conclusions, and interpret figurative language.
10. Expand vocabulary through reading by using context clues, word parts, and/or a dictionary.
11. Identify and explain popular American idioms.
12. Paraphrase and write the main idea/central point of a paragraph or multi-paragraph passage, whether stated or implied.
13. Create a written summary after reading a passage.