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Course Criteria
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Review, expansion, and practice of modals and modal-like verbs, expression of advisability and obligation, speculations and conclusions about the past, and the passive. Introduces the passive with modals and the passive causative, conditionals, direct and indirect speech, indirect instructions, commands, requests, and invitations, indirect questions, and embedded questions. Independent CD-based exercises on topics covered in 0095 - two hours per week.
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Develops reading skills by studying scanning, previewing and predicting, vocabulary, main ideas, skimming, making inferences, summarizing, paragraph topics and their patterns of organization. Reading Lab requirement: one hour per week.
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Builds up vocabulary and practices reading strategies. Exercises develop skills in recognizing affixes, using context clues, finding main ideas, scanning for details, drawing inferences, and forming conclusions. Reading Lab requirement: one hour per week.
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Focus on paragraph-level writing: review of mechanics, sentence structure, and sentence combining, followed by analysis of model paragraphs and practice in locating and formulating main ideas and topic sentences. Study of organizational patterns and outlines for various types of paragraphs. Includes work on unity, transitions, and support. Writing Lab requirement: one hour per week.
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Focuses on paragraph organization using timeorder, listing, description, narration, using reasons and examples, comparison and contrast, and facts and opinions. Mechanics and appropriate complex sentence structure for each method will be practiced. Writing Lab requirement: one hour per week.
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Increases fluency, comprehensibility, and confidence through both controlled and free speaking practice. Classroom activities, including role-plays, drama, pair dictation, and small group discussion promote fluency and provide a context for the practice of functional language. CD-based assignments provide a comprehensive review of the English sound system as well as useful practice in functional language. Lab requirement: one hour per week.
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Develops oral presentation skills while examining both formal and informal speaking, including idioms and relaxed speech. Class presentations allow students to share aspects of their own culture such as proverbs, games, folktales, forms of address, standards of conduct, ceremonies, and holidays. Pronunciation is closely monitored to detect irregularities, with individual remedial lab work assigned on sound production and differentiation. Lab requirement: one hour per week.
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Prepares students for the demands of academic lecture comprehension and note taking. Many organizational plans such as definition, description, cause and effect, process, examples, classification, comparison and contrast, and generalization will be studied. The course will emphasize how to evaluate, organize, and predict information in lectures. Exercises in vocabulary acquisition and language cue recognition are included. Listening Lab requirements: one hour per week.
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Academic focus: Introduces listening strategies for academic lectures, such as anticipating and organizing information; understanding humor, connecting words, and pronoun referents; recognizing analogy, quotations, and paraphrasing. Skill-building exercises include listening for main ideas, making inferences, listening for specific information, summarizing, and recognizing vocabulary in context. Listening Lab requirements: one hour per week.
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Focus on increasing reading speed, accuracy, and comprehension through detailed analysis of word parts, complex sentence structure, and paragraph construction. Vocabulary building activities include study of stems and affixes, practice in guessing meaning from context, exposure to figurative language, and using a monolingual dictionary. Exercises on a wide variety of material provide practice in reading strategies such as skimming, scanning, prediction, restatement, and inference. Reading Lab requirement: one hour per week.
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