OPIE D401 - High-Intermediate Listening/Speaking

• Student basic interactional comprehension (contractions, reductions, main ideas and most details in conversation) and basic transactional comprehension (key words, transition signals, and cohesive devices in simple discourse).
• Student comprehends the gist and basic organizational pattern of of a short narration, description, dialogue, or mini-lecture with a small amount of unfamiliar language and can respond to questions based upon discourse with little unfamiliar language.
• Student produces spontaneous speech which is usually comprehensible to native English speakers accustomed to speaking with English language learners and participates confidently in formal and informal conversations for social and classroom purposes.
• Student provides oral paraphrases of statements and questions and oral summaries of activities, reading passages, and listening assignments.
• 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 (Student can ask for information and respond to questions on a variety of topics, 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.
• Student understands the basic organizational pattern of a short (5-minute) mini-lecture and begins to record main points and supporting details from a short academic lecture.