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Jun 25, 2024
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OPIE D600 - Pre-Academic Core Skills
A 12 contact-hour CORE component of a full-time (20 hours/week) course of study in English as a second language for students preparing for academic study in an American university. Students incorporate understanding of grammatical structures, appropriate vocabulary, and organization into formally developed essays. More emphasis is placed on rhetorical modes and developing editing skills. Students increase their ability to use a variety of grammatical patterns and structures to express original ideas, to edit written text, and to paraphrase, summarize, and synthesize information and ideas in order to perform extended academic tasks orally and in writing. Reading comprehension and lexical skill development is emphasized along with the improvement of reading rate. Students learn to synthesize the various skills and strategies to which they have been exposed. Listening and speaking skill activities rely more heavily on academic task simulations and university-level expectations.
Requisites: Course is developmental
PERMISSION REQUIRED
Paper TOEFL: 476 minimum
IBT: 54 minimum
Composition: 40 minimum
Credit Hours: 12
Repeat/Retake Information: May be repeated for a maximum of 72.0 hours.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 12.0 lecture
Grades: Eligible Grades: F,CR,NC,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I
Learning Outcomes: - Student accurately produces target structures in controlled activities: active/passive, complementation, subordinate and reduced clauses, time/tense and verb patterns, noun/pronoun, article/determiner, modification & relationship patterns.
- Student comprehends overall organization and main ideas of an authentic academic reading passage, minor points, and supporting details; student distinguishes fact from opinion and explicit from implicit information, recognizes author’s purpose.
- Student demonstrates comprehension of target vocabulary by identifying/producing synonyms or definitions, using the vocabulary approrpiately, and responding correctly to comprehension questions. Student effectively uses an English-English dictionary.
- Student identifies main ideas from a reading selection whether stated explicitly or not by answering questions, recalling/retelling content, explaining time relationships between events, and choosing most accurate paraphrase of central idea.
- Student outlines and summarizes a passage that has been surveyed, read, and discussed. Student expands knowledge of common academic vocabulary through practice with the Academic Word List.
- Student produces previous target patterns (i.e. sentence, verb, noun/pronoun, article, modification and relationship) with increased accuracy. Student distinguishes sentences from fragments & run-ons.
- Student reports information from other sources in controlled activities, e.g. appropriate use of direct quotes, accurate punctuation, use of indirect speech shows accurate verb, pronoun, and time-word forms.
- Student uses Alden Library to borrow and read material from levels 4 - 6 of the OPIE leisure reading collection and demonstrates familiarity with the library’s periodicals and reference collections.
- Student uses learned target structures to participate orally in a variety of academic contexts, to paraphrase and to summarize, and to write academic essays.
- With guidance from the instructor, feedback on drafts, and opportunities for revision and editing, student writes expository essays of at least 5 paragraphs (400-600 words) and paragraph-length summaries of academic and non-academic texts
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