Listening
Learners will develop the ability to:
- Follow a set of instructions with seven to ten steps where the order must be inferred
- Identify keywords, main ideas, and important supporting details in a conversation, group interaction, media clip, or presentation
- Take notes from short recorded messages
- Identify a speaker’s purpose in suggestions, advice, encouragement, and requests
- Determine the social register (level of formality, language of social group) used in conversations, and identify the inferred meanings and mood/attitude of the participants
Speaking
Learners will develop the ability to:
- Give and ask for instructions on routines, processes, procedures, or technical tasks
- Initiate, maintain, and close a short formal and informal conversation
- Express and respond to apologies, regrets, excuses, and gratitude in a social conversation
- Make simple suggestions, predictions, recommendations, and requests; provide reasons
- Answer the phone professionally; ask for information and leave messages
- Participate in a group by expressing opinions, facts, and feelings on a topic
- Clarify, explain, or elaborate to solve a misunderstanding
- Summarize, paraphrase, and critically analyze research findings on a topic/issue
Reading
Learners will develop the ability to:
- Locate required information in formatted and continuous text
- Follow written instructions with seven to ten steps
- Identify keywords, main ideas, and important supporting details in everyday, business, and academic texts
- Identify factual details and inferred meanings in notes, email, and letters
- Use the reading strategies of preview, skim, and scan to read faster with improved comprehension
Writing
Learners will develop the ability to:
- Fill out forms with necessary information
- Reduce a page of information to point-form structure
- Paraphrase one or two paragraphs of information
- Write one or two paragraphs to relate an event, give a description, or explain reasons
- Write personal and business notes, email, and short letters
- Improve keyboarding and word-processing skills as needed, and identify computer programs required for future jobs and academic studies