Description:

This course provides English Language Learning (ELL) students the opportunity to expand fluency in speaking and pronunciation. The course covers techniques for listening with accuracy and speaking with the stress, rhythm and intonation of American English. Personal communications and group interactions in academic, career and community settings are included. The course concludes with applications to individual life goals. 3 hrs lecture/wk. This course does not fulfill degree requirements.

Supplies: Refer to the instructor's course syllabus for details about any supplies that may be required.

Textbook(s): For information see - http://bookstore.jccc.net

Course Fees: NONE

Course Objectives:

Upon successful completion of this course the student should be able to:

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.

Content Outline & Competencies:

I. Orientation and Goal-Setting
   A. List JCCC resources for developing fluency in speaking American
English
   B. Establish fluency goals

II. Strategies for Listening and Responding
   A. List listening/responding patterns for standard American English in
academic,     business, and personal applications
   B. Develop listening strategies to include verbal and non-verbal
communications
   C. Create scenarios based on academic issues

III. Stress, Rhythm, and Intonation of Standard American English
   A. Demonstrate mastery of the International Phonetic Alphabet
   B. Apply stress patterns to academic and business interactions 
   C. Develop fluency with rhythm in sentences
   D. Articulate correct intonation for academic and personal
communications 

IV. Oral Projects
   A. Review stress, rhythm, and intonation patterns
      1. List strategies in the context of audience and purpose 
      2. Apply strategies to interactive scenarios 
   B. Plan an oral project about cultural issues
   C. Present the oral project

V. Pronunciation Performance: Phrasing, Pausing, and Linking
   A. Dramatize phrases and thought groups in speeches and poems
   B. Apply pauses in business and career-related interactions 
   C. Use linking strategies

VI. Communications about Academic and Community Issues 
   A. Synthesize major performance strategies and pronunciation patterns 
   B. Practice presenting tapescript passages with verbal and non-verbal
techniques
   C. Present a formal speech about an academic or community issue
   D. Evaluate speeches

VII.  Group Communications and Interactions
   A. Plan a debate in a group setting
   B. Present a controversial issue in a debate
   C. Apply debate techniques to academic and business settings

VIII. Self-Assessment Reports
   A. Review major competencies and pronunciation strategies
   B. Report self-assessments
   C. Report goals 
     1. Apply strategies to educational and personal goals
     2. Exhibit awareness of culture-based communications

Methods of Evaluation of Competencies:

Evaluation of student mastery of course competencies will be accomplished using the following methods:

20 - 30 %  Class Participation
40 - 50 %  Reports and Homework
20 - 30 %  Quizzes and Assessments 
    100 %  Total    


Grade Criteria: 
      A  90 - 100  %. 
      B  80 -  89  %
      C  70 -  79  %
      D  60 -  69  %
      F  59 %  or lower

Caveats: NONE

Disabilities:

If you are a student with a disability, and if you will be requesting accommodations, it is your responsibility to contact Access Services. Access Services will recommend any appropriate accommodations to your professor and his/her director. The professor and director will identify for you which accommodations will be arranged.

JCCC provides a range of services to allow persons with disabilities to participate in educational programs and activities. If you desire support services, contact the office of Access Services for Students With Disabilities (913) 469-8500, ext. 3521 or TDD (913) 469-3885. The Access Services office is located in the Success Center on the second floor of the Student Center.