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| Noncredit ESL- LPC |
| NESL 203 | Language for Child's Learning | .00 Units | ||
| School Matters 1 will teach English Learners the listening and speaking, reading and writing, and vocabulary skills necessary to help support their child's learning in the K-12 school system. This class focuses specifically on supporting your child in their classroom (for example, language skills for contacting your child's teacher), and supporting your child's learning at home (for example, reading and writing skills for helping your child with homework). Recommended Course Preparation: NESL 231A and/or Completion of ESL Level 1A, or placement into ESL Level 1B through the ESL Assessment. | ||||
| College: Las Positas College | ||||
| Division: A - H | ||||
| NESL 204 | Language for Child's Community | .00 Units | ||
| School Matters 2 will teach English Learners the listening and speaking, reading and writing, and vocabulary skills necessary to engage with their child?s K-12 school community. This class focuses specifically on language skills for interacting with school administration (for example, speaking skills for engaging office staff about a child?s absence), and interacting with the greater school community (for example, speaking skills for volunteering at your child?s school). | ||||
| College: Las Positas College | ||||
| Division: A - H | ||||
| NESL 213 | Speaking and Listening Fluency | .00 Units | ||
| This is an oral communication course that will enable students to develop advanced speaking and listening fluency for academic and professional purposes. ESL 113 will enable students to fluently use linguistic forms accurately, meaningfully and appropriately, emphasizing academic and professional discourse. Students will practice listening and responding to academic lectures and presentations like TED Talks, including note-taking, summarizing, and other forms of critical analysis. Speaking practice will emphasize advanced rhetorical strategies through group discussions, debates, impromptu speeches and oral presentations and cultural norms in academic and professional contexts. It is the fifth and highest level of the ESL Speaking and Listening Fluency Pathway. Prerequisite: NESL 223 or ESL 123 or NESL 226 or ESL 226 with a minimum grade of Pass or Placement into Advanced ESL courses through the ESL Assessment Process. | ||||
| College: Las Positas College | ||||
| Division: A - H | ||||
| NESL 220A | Intermediate Grammar Reading | .00 Units | ||
| This is the first semester of a one-year course in intermediate grammar for academic writing and reading designed to enable students to identify, comprehend, and use linguistic forms accurately, meaningfully and appropriately in reading and writing. The course focuses on types of sentences, clauses, and phrases, word order, verb forms, verb tenses, and on the connection between vocabulary and grammar. Students are advised to enroll concurrently in NESL 220A and NESL 221A, and ESL 123 or ESL 126. Prerequisite: NESL 230B or ESL 130B with a minimum grade of P or placement through the ESL assessment process | ||||
| College: Las Positas College | ||||
| Division: A - H | ||||
| NESL 220B | High-Intermediate Grammar | .00 Units | ||
| This is the second semester of a one-year course in intermediate grammar for academic writing and reading designed to enable students to use linguistic forms accurately, meaningfully and appropriately in written expression. The course focuses on types of sentences, clauses, phrases, word order, verb forms, verb tenses, and on the connection between vocabulary and grammar. This course also emphasizes analyzing grammar and meaning and detecting and correcting grammatical errors. Students are advised to enroll concurrently in NESL 220B and NESL 221B, and ESL 123 or ESL 126. Prerequisite: NESL 220A or ESL 120A with a minimum grade of P or placement through the ESL assessment process | ||||
| College: Las Positas College | ||||
| Division: A - H | ||||
| NESL 221A | Intermed. Reading and Writing | .00 Units | ||
| This is the first semester of a one-year course in intermediate academic writing and reading. Classes will focus on writing sentences, paragraphs and compositions, developing strategies for reading comprehension and flexibility, on interactive reading, and on academic vocabulary development. Students will develop cultural understanding, vocabulary, and fluency through a variety of academic writing and reading tasks. Students are advised to enroll concurrently in NESL 220A and NESL 221A, and ESL 123 or ESL 126. Prerequisite: NESL 231B or ESL 131B with a minimum grade of P or placement through ESL assessment process | ||||
| College: Las Positas College | ||||
| Division: A - H | ||||
| NESL 221B | Intermediate Reading & Writing | .00 Units | ||
| This is the second semester of a one-year course in intermediate academic writing and reading. Classes will focus on writing sentences, paragraphs and compositions, developing strategies for reading comprehension and flexibility, on interactive reading, and academic vocabulary development. Students will develop cultural understanding and fluency through a variety of academic writing and reading tasks. Students are advised to enroll concurrently in NESL 221B and NESL 220B, and ESL 123 or ESL 126. Prerequisite: NESL 221A or ESL 121A with a minimum grade of Pass or Placement through ESL assessment process. | ||||
| College: Las Positas College | ||||
| Division: A - H | ||||
| NESL 223 | Intermediate Oral Communicatio | .00 Units | ||
| This is an intermediate level oral communication course. This course will enable students to use linguistic forms accurately, meaningfully and appropriately, emphasizing academic listening and speaking skills: listening and speaking in small groups, listening to short lectures on academic topics, learning academic vocabulary and expressions, making presentations on new topics. Prerequisite: ESL 130B or ESL 131B or ESL 133 with a minimum grade of P or Placement through the ESL assessment process. | ||||
| College: Las Positas College | ||||
| Division: A - H | ||||
| NESL 230A | Beg. Grammar Reading & Writing | .00 Units | ||
| This is the first semester of a one-year course in beginning grammar for academic purposes designed to enable students to understand and use English accurately, meaningfully and appropriately. The course focuses on the connection between vocabulary and grammar, simple and compound sentences, phrases, verb forms, and verb tenses, especially simple and compound sentences, phrases, verb forms, and verb tenses, especially simple present, simple past, and present progressive. Students are advised to enroll concurrently in NESL 230A and NESL 231A, and ESL 133 or ESL 136. Recommended Course Preparation: Placement through the ESL assessment process | ||||
| College: Las Positas College | ||||
| Division: A - H | ||||
| NESL 230B | High-Beginning Grammar | .00 Units | ||
| This is the second semester of a one-year course in beginning grammar for academic purposes designed to enable students to identify and use linguistic forms accurately, meaningfully and appropriately in written expression. The course focuses on simple and compound sentences, word order, verb tenses: simple present, past, and future as well as present and past progressive, verb forms, modals, phrases, and vocabulary development. Students are advised to enroll concurrently in NESL 230B, NESL 231B, and ESL 133 or ESL 136. Prerequisite: NESL 230A or ESL 130A with a minimum grade of P or placement through the ESL assessment process | ||||
| College: Las Positas College | ||||
| Division: A - H | ||||
| NESL 231A | Beginning Reading and Writing | .00 Units | ||
| This is the first semester of a one-year course in beginning academic writing and reading. Classes will focus on writing simple and compound sentences in short paragraphs, on developing strategies for increasing reading comprehension and flexibility, on interactive reading, and on developing academic vocabulary. Students will develop cultural understanding and fluency through a variety of writing and reading tasks. Students are advised to enroll concurrently in NESL 231A and NESL 230A, and ESL 133 or ESL 136. Recommended Course Preparation: Appropriate skill level demonstrated through the ESL assessment process | ||||
| College: Las Positas College | ||||
| Division: A - H | ||||
| NESL 231B | High- Beg. Reading and Writing | .00 Units | ||
| This is the second semester of a one-year course in beginning academic writing and reading. Classes will focus on writing simple, compound, and complex sentences in structured paragraphs, on developing strategies for increasing reading comprehension and on developing academic vocabulary. Students will develop cultural understanding and fluency through a variety of writing and reading tasks. Students are advised to enroll concurrently in NESL 231B and NESL 230B, and ESL 133 or ESL 136. Prerequisite: NESL 231A or ESL 131A with a minimum grade of Pass or Placement through ESL assessment process | ||||
| College: Las Positas College | ||||
| Division: A - H | ||||
| NESL 233 | Beginning Oral Communication | .00 Units | ||
| This is a beginning oral communication course. This course will enable students to use English accurately, meaningfully and appropriately, emphasizing conversational skills: listening and speaking in small groups, using new grammar structures orally, learning new words and expressions, comprehending and using idiomatic expressions. Recommended Course Preparation: Placement through the ESL assessment process. | ||||
| College: Las Positas College | ||||
| Division: A - H | ||||
| NESL 236 | Begining Pronunciation&Fluency | .00 Units | ||
| Focused practice on recognizing and producing individual speech sounds, stress patterns, rhythm and intonation patterns, and grammatical signals through activities such as oral presentations, role play, authentic dialogue, and presentations. Students will focus on developing listener friendly pronunciation. Course content includes individual as well as group work. Recommended Course Preparation: Placement through the ESL Assessment process. | ||||
| College: Las Positas College | ||||
| Division: A - H | ||||
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