ESL 91 - Oral Skills I: Beginning Oral Communication

Institution:

Riverside City College

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Description:

Prerequisite: None. Advisory: Concurrent enrollment in ESL-51 or 52. This course emphasizes beginning conversation, pronunciation and idiomatic skills along with basic listening comprehension. Conversational and idiomatic skills focus on fluent and appropriate use of common words and functional expressions in life skills areas - shopping, food, clothing, money/banking, car/license, travel, medicine. Pronunciation focuses on the articulation of English vowels and consonants and on the development of basic English patterns of stress and intonation. Listening stresses understanding verbal instructions and questions, common vocabulary and daily functions in an aural context, main ideas and details in monologues and dialogues. Subsequent enrollment in an additional semester will provide the student with an opportunity for further skills and competency development at the beginning level. May be taken a total of two times. 54 hours lecture and 18 hours laboratory. (Non-degree credit course. Pass/ No Pass only.)

Credits:

3.00

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Instructional Type:

Multiple

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Institution Website:

www.rcc.edu/riverside/

Phone Number:

(951) 222-8000 ext 8979

Regional Accreditation:

Western Association of Schools and Colleges

Calendar System:

Semester

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