Description:

This course provides English Language Learning (ELL) students the opportunity to enhance fluency in speaking, pronunciation, and listening at the upper intermediate level. Students apply standard American communication patterns to understand lectures, speak in academic settings, and communicate in group interactions. Informal and formal projects include oral reports in specific fields of study and academic debates. The course concludes with analysis of individual goals and assessments to enhance academic success. This course does not fulfill degree requirements. 3 hrs. lecture/wk.

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. 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

Content Outline & Competencies:

I. Orientation and Assessments
   A. Identify course objectives and successful academic behaviors.
   B. Discuss American oratory traditions.
   C. Participate in formal assessments for speaking and understanding
standard American English in formal and informal settings.

II. Strategies for Listening, Note-Taking, and Responding
   A. Engage in self-monitoring listening activities to analyze lecture
information.
   B. Organize notes about academic presentations. 
   C. Create scenarios to indicate accurate listening and responding.

III. Pronunciation Strategies for Informal Interactions
   A. Review components of intermediate-level pronunciation using
culturally-sensitive expressions.
      1. Reproduce vowel and consonant combinations for authentic
interactions.
      2. Create dialogs from lists of commonly used expressions.
      3. Regulate the rate, modulation, and rhythms of spoken American
English.
   B. Apply strategies to interactive scenarios.
      1. Participate in six self-created dialogs and ten dialogs created
by classmates.
      2. Synthesize information from dialogs.

IV. Informal Speech Projects
   A. Prepare academic interactions with idiomatic expressions.
   B. Apply career-related vocabulary to on-campus and off-campus
conversations.
   C. Use linking strategies.
      1. List strategies in the context of audience and purpose.
      2. Demonstrate academic interactions.

V. Pronunciation Strategies for Formal Spoken nteractions
   A. Apply intonation and rhythm patterns to academic and other formal
interactions.
   B. Create and participate in academic interactions to include history,
art, language arts, humanities, and/or social science classes.
   C. Demonstrate phrasal and sentence patterns for targeted audiences.
   D. Synthesize major pronunciation strategies for speech production.

VI. Formal Speech Projects 
   A. Demonstrate formal speech strategies for famous speeches, selected
reading passages, and/or tapescripts.
   B. Present formal speeches about discipline-specific topics.
   C. Evaluate speeches.

VII. Communication Patterns in Groups and Large Audiences
   A. Organize a debate in a group setting about an academic issue.
   B. Participate in a debate about an academic issue.
   C. Present a contemporary issue to a college class.
   D. Apply group communication patterns to academic and career settings.

VIII. Review and Post-Assessments
   A. Review major exit competencies.
   B. Report self-assessments.
   C. Participate in formal post-assessments

Methods of Evaluation of Competencies:

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

Class Participation              20 - 30 %  of grade
Reports, Projects, and Homework  40 - 50 %  of grade 
Quizzes and Assessments          20 - 30 %  of grade 
                     Total        100 % 


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.