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AMLA 21S |
- Students will rate their awareness of personal pronunciation strengths
- Students will rate their awareness of personal pronunciation weaknesses
- students will assess their level of confidence when speaking English
- Measure AMLA 21 students’ self-awareness of pronunciation accuracy
- Measure accuracy of AMLA 21 students’ pronunciation.
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American Language Advanced Reading |
AMLA 33R |
- Students will demonstrate comprehension of level-appropriate vocabulary.
- Students will demonstrate comprehension of level-appropriate reading selection.
- Students will demonstrate acquisition of new vocabulary in a course-embedded tests of either a combination of passive (no more than 50% of the words) and active masteries or active mastery alone.
- Students will comprehend the central meaning and/or details of a text of level appropriate length and difficulty
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American Language Advanced Writing |
AMLA 43W |
- Upon completion of AMLA 43 students will be able to identify correct SV agreement.
- Upon completion of AMLA 43 students will be able to edit for incorrect verb tense.
- Students will produce a body of writing that meets the course standard for focus.
- Students will produce a body of writing that meets the standard for language use.
- By the end of the semester, students will produce a piece of writing that shows appropriate development of ideas.
- By the end of the semester, students will produce a piece of writing that has appropriate sentence variety.
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American Language Basic Reading |
AMLA 31R |
- Students will demonstrate comprehension of level-appropriate reading selection.
- Students will demonstrate comprehension of level-appropriate vocabulary.
- Students will demonstrate acquisition of new vocabulary in course-embedded tests of either a combination of passive (no more than 50% of the words) and active masteries or active mastery alone.
- Students will comprehend the central meaning and/or details of a text of level appropriate length and difficulty.
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American Language Basic Writing |
AMLA 41W |
- Using a Langford-style pre/post survey, 100% of AMLA 41 students will self-assess their level of understanding of AMLA 41 major grammar points. At the end of the semester, 70% of the students responding will rate their understanding as "I can use it correctly" or better on 70% of the language objectives.
- Students will produce a body of writing that meets the course standard for focus.
- Students will produce a body of writing that meets the course standard for language use.
- By the end of the semester, students will produce a piece of writing that demonstrates the ability to develop ideas.
- By the end of the semester, students will produce a piece of writing that has appropriate sentence variety.
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American Language Formal Speaking |
AMLA 23S |
- students will self-assess their pronunciation strengths and weaknesses
- students will organize and deliver a formal speech
- Students will demonstrate greater confidence in academic public speaking
- Students will successfully take notes on the main ideas of an academic lecture
- Students will rate their organization of impromptu speeches higher on the post test than on the pre test
- Students will deliver a two-minute impromptu speech on a given topic using effective delivery, including eye contact, volume, and time.
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American Language Intermediate Reading |
AMLA 32R |
- Demonstrate comprehension of level-appropriate vocabulary.
- Students will demonstrate comprehension of level-appropriate reading selection.
- Students will write a paraphrase of main ideas from a paragraph-length text
- Students will demonstrate active and passive mastery of 60 newly acquired vocabulary to be generally taken from the General Service List and the Academic word list.
- Students will demonstrate acquisition of new vocabulary in a course-embedded tests of either a combination of passive (no more than 50% of the words) and active masteries or active mastery alone.
- Students will comprehend the central meaning and/or details of a text of level appropriate length and difficulty
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American Language Intermediate Writing |
AMLA 42W |
- Upon completion of AMLA 42 students will be able to identify correct verb tenses.
- Students will produce a body of writing that meets the course standard for focus.
- Students will produce a body of writing that meets the course standard for language use.
- By the end of the semester, students will produce a piece of writing that demonstrates the ability to appropriately develop ideas.
- By the end of the semester, students will produce a piece of writing that has appropriate sentence variety.
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AmLa Interpersonal Communication |
AMLA 22S |
- students will self-assess their strengths and weaknesses in pronunciation of vowels consonants
- students will self-assessment the strengths and weaknesses with stress and intonation
- Students will demonstrate greater confidence in English conversation.
- Students will recognize correct use of grammar and language functions in conversational speech (e.g. ?I am interested in?.? vs.? I am interesting in?.? and correct sentence structure in ?I was wondering if you could tell me the answer to number 13.?).
- Demonstrate improvement in ability to recognize correct grammar and usage of common language functions (pre-post objective assessment)
- Students will demonstrate the ability to interpret the meaning of common American gestures
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Idiomatic English |
AMLA 24 |
- Students will demonstrate comprehension of level-appropriate idioms.
- Students will demonstrate comprehension of level-appropriate proverbs.
- AmLa 24S Students will demonstrate greater confidence when using idioms in spoken English.
- Students will recognize correct usage of thirty-five common English idioms.
- Students will score better on a 35 question test which measures the ability to recognize correct usage of common English idioms.
- On exiting the course, students will be able to define literal vs. figurative language
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