Level 4 - Low Intermediate (ESL 201)

This integrated course consisting of Conversation (ESL201-1, 87.75 hours), Grammar (ESL201-2, 87.75 hours), and American Culture (ESL201-4, 58.5 hours), will challenge students to become more fluent in their English-speaking abilities. It will broaden students’ ability to comprehend and respond appropriately to spoken English and to use spoken English in a variety of social situations, comprehend and use grammatical structures in written and spoken English in an academic setting, comprehend texts in English, and increase students’ fluency in producing written language.

It is an integrated course, combining English grammar, vocabulary, reading, writing, speaking, and listening instruction.

Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to recognize main ideas and details in conversations and short lectures, communicate needs, activities and events using appropriate time frame and vocabulary, employ clarification strategies, apply linguistic, socio-cultural and other background knowledge and strategies to understand the intent of a speaker and to respond appropriately, know and use basic grammar, sentence structure and appropriate level of formality, interpret short paragraphs on familiar topics, predict meanings of unfamiliar vocabulary with contextual clues, examine authentic documents to locate specific information, convey ideas in a paragraph with detailed information.

There are Optional Courses are offered parallel to the above course.