English as a Second Language
ELS 045 Listening I
Course Description: Students will be taught the main skills needed to develop good listening habits. ‘Listening’ for understanding is the over all or final learning out come that is to be achieved. Skills to be developed will be enhanced by using audio, video presentations toward the goal of improved understanding and direct information transfer. 3 Credits.
ELS 046 Listening II
Course Description: Listening II will be a continuation of Listening I. Listening for specific information, listening for main ideas, listening for supporting details are among the listening skills that are taught across the course. Naturally, as the levels progress, the syllabi will require the development of more challenging listening skills like inferencing, transfer of linear to non-linear information, drawing conclusion, etc. 3 Credits.
ELS 050 Speaking I
Course Description: Speaking skills are the most difficult and consume a large portion of our communications medium, it is very important to develop student’s abilities in speaking. Role playing and other techniques will be used to build a students confidence level that will enable them to converse and communicate using English. Speaking skills will include making introductions, use of language forms and functions, managing discussion, as well as, the formation of sentences, the use of language expressions, the development and organization of ideas as well as the types of vocabulary. Audio and video tapes will be used. 3 Credits.
ELS 051 Speaking II
Course Description: Speaking II will be a continuation of Speaking I with more and more practice. 3 Credits.
ELS 060 Reading I
Course Description: Students will learn to read starting with the basics. Students will develop a complete understanding of letter knowledge, syntax, linguistic knowledge, reading comprehension, language comprehension and decoding skills. 3 Credits.
ELS 061 Reading II
Course Description: Reading II will further expand the students reading skills. Students will build up their competence in skimming and scanning skills, deriving meaning from context, distinguishing main ideas and supporting ideas, reading for specific information, etc. 3 Credits.
ELS 070 Writing I
Course Description: Students will be exposed to the different genre of writing such as narrative, descriptive, argumentative, report writing, proposals, letters and others. Grammar will be emphasized including spelling and punctuation. Tapes and video will be used to help students develop writing skills. 3 Credits.
ELS 071 Writing II
Course Description: Writing II will be a continuation of Writing I, expanding writing skills to include drafting, revising, editing, and build up thesis statement, topic sentences, as well as how to utilize supporting details. 3 Credits