SANTA BARBARA CITY COLLEGE

ASSOCIATE DEGREE CREDIT COURSE OUTLINE

Department: ESL

Subject Area and Course Number: ESL 128

Course Title: ESL Levels 1-5 Conversation Workshop

Discipline: ESL

Units: 2

Repeatability: 3

Catalog Course Description: Designed to provide the ESL student with verbal and listening skills and development of oral language ability.

Description for Schedule of Classes: ESL Levels 1-5 students practice verbal and listening skills and develop oral language ability.

Lecture Hours per Week: 2

Laboratory Hours per Week: None

Plus Hours: None

Prerequisites: Qualifying score on SBCC Placement Exam

Co-requisites: None

Skill Advisories: None

Course Advisories: None

Limitation on Enrollment: None

Course Objectives: At the end of the course, the student will be able to:

1. Participate in basic conversations in formal and informal settings.

2. Ask and answer basic questions about renting an apartment or house.

3. Describe educational background and job-related skills.

4. Answer elementary-level questions in a mock job interview.

5. Ask intermediate-level questions in a variety of consumer settings.

6. Identify body parts and ailments and ask basic questions in a medical setting.

7. Ask simple questions about travel schedules and learn to describe travel plans

8. Improve comprehensibility through greater accuracy in pronunciation.

Course Content and Scope:

1. Greetings and Small Talk

a. Discussions of multicultural topics: similarities and differences between the United States and their countries.

b. Practice and compare greetings in casual and formal settings.

2. Housing

a. Ask questions about rental ads and obtain desired relevant information.

b. Practice asking questions of a landlord.

c. Describe problems in an apartment and request repairs.

3. Employment

a. Practice vocabulary related to work.

b. Develop a list of vocational/professional expertise and vocabulary to describe skills and experiences.

4. Shopping

a. Practice vocabulary for a variety of shopping: food, clothing, domestics.

b. Practice and create dialogs in consumer settings.

5. Health Care

a. Review and expand vocabulary describing body parts and common ailments.

b. Practice making emergency calls.

c. Give and ask for information in a doctor's office and request clarification of health-related issues.

d. Respond appropriately to instructions and requests in a doctor’s office.

6. Travel/Transportation

a. Ask questions about schedules.

b. Use simple maps.

c. Ask for and give directions.

7. Pronunciation

a. Practice how individual sounds (vowels and consonants) are articulated.

b. Practice various stress patterns in individual words.

c. Practice the rhythm of English in a variety of phrases sentences.

d. Practice the intonation pattern of English in a variety of phrases and sentences.

Methods of Instruction: Pair work, small groups, lecture, interactive activities, individual instruction, role play, dramatizations, and videotapes of students for review.

Required Assignments:

1. Regular attendance

2. Homework

3. Unit or other interval tests or projects

4. Presentations

5. Final exam: Written and oral

Methods of Evaluation: Students must attend regularly and participate in class activities, complete homework assignments, and pass exams.

Appropriate Texts and Supplies:

Carver, Tina Kasaloff and Fotinos, Sandra Douglas. 1998. A Conversation Book. Upper Saddle River, N.J.: Prentice Hall Regents.

Molinsky, Steven J. and Bliss, Bill. 1994. Word by Word. White Plains, N.Y.: Pearson Education.

Lane, Linda. 1997. Basics in Pronunciation. White Plains, N.Y: Addison Wesley Longman.

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Updated January 2006

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