OPIE D301 - Intermediate Listening/Speaking

• Student can respond to questions based upon discourse (5- 10 minutes), which contains little or no unfamiliar language. Student participates confidently in formal and informal conversations for social and classroom purposes.
• Student comprehends the gist and basic organizational pattern of of a short narration, description, dialogue, or mini-lecture which contains some (a modest amount of) unfamiliar language.
• Student demonstrates basic interactional comprehension, i.e. contractions and reductions, main ideas and most details in conversational discourse on a variety of topics beyond the immediate situation.
• Student demonstrates basic transactional comprehension, i.e. identifies and understands key words in a short piece of extended discourse, some transition signals, and cohesive devices in a short piece of simple extended discourse.
• Student produces spontaneous speech in which articulation is usually comprehensible to native English speakers accustomed to speaking with English language learners.
• Student recognizes, comprehends, and can produce in isolated words and carefully spoken sentences: phonemes, inflectional markers for tense and number, question forms, basic stress, and intonation patterns.
• Student shares information and asks questions appropriate for communication with staff in Chubb Hall, the Office of Campus Safety, Alden Library, and campus sports and recreational facilities, e.g. the Ping Center, the Aquatic Center, Baker Center.
• Student successfully performs basic interactional tasks, i.e. student is able to ask for information and respond to questions on a variety of topics and politely interrupt someone, complain, or disagree.
• Student successfully performs basic transactional tasks, i.e. student responds orally to comprehension questions, states and supports his/her point of view in response to class material.