Course Outline
Instructor: Susan Boland Office: Pungo (F) 120
Email:sboland@tcc.edu Phone:822-7286
Web: www.tcc.edu/faculty/webpages/SBoland Office Hours: MWF 9-11 2-3
TR 12-3
Textbooks and other required materials:
Phrase by Phrase Marsha Chan
Take On Listening 2 Scholnick & Gabler
One blank standard-size tape
* Students will be required to make a tape recording of their speech on a weekly basis. There are cassette recorders in the Learning Resource Center that students may use for this assignment if they do not have a cassette recorder at home.
* Students must understand that used books which have been written in will NOT BE ACCEPTABLE FOR CLASS. Students who come to class with a book that has been written in w ill be asked to return to the bookstore to buy another clean copy.
Course Prerequisites : Satisfactory grade in ESL 02 or Placement Test.
Course Description : ESL 07 is designed for students who need to improve speaking and listening skills in order to be both competent and comfortable communicating in the classroom. The course will focus on four areas: pronunciation, speaking, and listening skills.
Course Objectives :
Pronunciation Students will study the pronunciation system of English and be able to pronounce vowels and consonants with near native-like accuracy. Students will also incorporate into their speech English intonation patterns, stress patterns, and thought groups. Student will also become familiar with reductions and contractions.
Speaking Students will be able to give a short presentation and participate in both small-group and large-group discussions.
Listening Students will understand short presentations, take notes while listening to a presentation, and summarize a presentation from their written notes.
Course Content : Class time will be divided between speaking and listening activities, with a heavier emphasis on the pronunciation of English. Listening exercises will vary between tapes, videos, and presentations in class. During class, we will work with both textbooks, in both small and large group formats, as well as class discussions.
Method of Evaluation : Students will take a quiz each week on the listening material covered in Take on Listening . Each week students also will be assigned a passage from Phrase by Phrase to record on a cassette tape. This tape will be handed in and graded by your instructor. The specific grading criteria for each tape will be given to the students with each weekly assignment. Students will also give two short presentations ( 3 - 5 minutes) in the course of the semester.
Students are responsible for being aware of the policies, procedures, and student responsibilities contained within the current edition of the Tidewater Community College Catalog and Student handbook. Students should familiarize themselves with the College's policies regarding academic misconduct and inclement weather policies found in the Student handbook section of the catalogue.
Plagiarism is the intentional or accidental use of another person's words or ideas as your own. Cheating involves copying another person's homework, looking at another person's exam, test, or quiz, or using unauthorized notes while taking a quiz, exam, test or writing an in-class writing assignment. Students who cheat or plagiarize will receive a failure in the class.
Attendance: If you miss more than 20% of scheduled class time, you will receive a U. Arriving late (after roll is taken) is considered one-half an absence. Students are responsible for work missed due to an absence. When you are absent, you should contact your instructor at sboland@tcc.edu to find out what was missed and/or assigned.
Learning Resources: Students will be encouraged through out the semester to use the resources available in the Learning Resource Center (LRC). The Language Lab on the second floor of the Bayside Building (LRC) is especially helpful for ESL students. Pronunciation Power , a computer program that assists students with improving pronunciation skills, is an excellent resource which students can use in the LRC. Please ask your instructor for more details on how to use this excellent resource.
Special Needs : If you have special needs because of a documented disability or medical condition, please feel free to discuss this with your instructor during her office hours.
Final Grade : To receive an S (Satisfactory) in this class, students must maintain an 80% average on all assignments, including quizzes, recordings, and presentations. If a student does not meet the above criteria, the student will receive a grade of R (Re-Enroll) or U (Unsatisfactory).
Please note that adjustments to this schedule may be required as we proceed through the semester.
We will be using the Take on Listening textbook on Mondays and Phrase by Phrase
on Wednesdays and Fridays.
Week One Introduction to Course
Diagnostic Testing
Week Two Phrase by Phrase Grasshopper and the Ants
Recording Assignment One
Week Three Phrase by Phrase Liz's Exercise Program
Recording Assignment Two
Take On Listening : Chapter One
Week Four Phrase by Phrase What's for Dinner?
Recording Assignment Three
Take On Listening: Chapter One
Week Five Phrase by Phrase Love for Buck
Recording Assignment Four
Take On Listening Chapter Two
Week Six Phrase by Phrase Cleaning Up The Backyard
Recording Assignment Five
Take On Listening: Chapter Two
Week Seven Phrase by Phrase A Sunday Outing
Recording Assignment Six
Take On Listening Chapter Three
Week Eight Phrase by Phrase The Oak and The Reed
Assignment: Student Self-Evaluation of Progress
Take On Listening: Chapter Three
Spring Break March 6 - 10, 2006
Week Nine Phrase by Phrase Koko's Kitten
Recording Assignment Seven
Take On Listening Chapter Four
Week Ten Phrase by Phrase Why I Work
Recording Assignment Eight
Take On Listening: Chapter Four
Week Eleven Phrase by Phrase Rafting Through the Grand Canyon
Recording Assignment Nine
Take On Listening: Chapter Five
Week Twelve Phrase by Phrase The Accident
Recording Assignment Ten
Take On Listening: Chapter Five
Week Thirteen Phrase by Phrase Volcanoes in the Ring of Fire
Recording Assignment Eleven
Take On Listening Chapter Six
Week Fourteen Phrase by Phrase Father's Idea of Fun
Recording Assignment Twelve
Take On Listening: Chapter Seven
Week Fifteen Presentations
Week Sixteen Final Self-Evaluation of Progress Due