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Sep 27, 2024
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OPIE D100 - Foundations in English CORE Skills 12 contact-hour core component of a full-time (20 hours/week) course in English as a second language for students at the beginning level whose ultimate aim is academic study. Core Skills class focuses on basic grammar and communication skills. Writing sometimes included. Focus is on American English for effective communication both inside and outside the classroom.
Requisites: Course is developmental
PERMISSION REQUIRED
Paper TOEFL: below 349
IBT: below 20
Placement Test: below 45
Composition Exam: 2- 10 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 asks someone to repeat what s/he has said, to speak more slowly, or to write something down to facilitate comprehension.
- Student understands English words, phrases, and expressions related to health and safety, food, numbers, money, weather, clothing, directions, university residence halls and off-campus housing, campus facilities and services, and relevant policies.
- Student understands and can produce words, phrases, and expressions related to basic life skills: e.g. greeting and leave-taking, asking/giving directions, interrupting, making/declining requests or invitations.
- Student uses learned target structures and vocabulary orally and in simple writing tasks to create sentences which express own ideas about familiar topics (e.g. personal experience), and to ask and answer information questions.
- Student uses learned target structures and vocabulary to comprehend slow but natural speech by a native speaker. Student can make himself/herself understood in a simple way, can ask for and give clarification.
- Student will demonstrate recognition, comprehension, and production of target structures, including sentence patterns, time, tense, and verb patterns, noun, pronoun, article, and determiner patterns.
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