NGL 111 - Applied Integrated Skills L2

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Students develop the ability to understand essential information about everyday topics from writing and speech, and to state and write straightforward, factual information from their daily lives.

Maximum units a student may earn: 0

Grading Basis: Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory
Offered: Every Fall and Spring

Student Learning Outcomes
Upon completion of this course, students will be able to:
1. identify: main idea and supporting details of a paragraph/short text on a familiar topic; author’s purpose.
2. differentiate fact and opinion in a short text on an everyday topic.
3. identify main idea and key details of short conversation or talk on an everyday topic.
4. make general predictions about upcoming information in a short conversation or talk about a familiar topic.
5. recognize cause and effect relationships among key points in a short talk.
6. use rejoinders and positive body language to show interest.
7. ask follow-up and clarification questions to get more information.
8. ask for and give examples.
9. check and confirm understanding.
10. describe an everyday person or thing in concrete detail.
11. express personal opinions on common everyday topics.
12. participate in a group discussion about solving an everyday problem; present plan as member of group.
13. write: unified descriptive/explanatory paragraphs on everyday topics; topic sentence conveying paragraph’s topic/main idea clearly.
14. support main idea of a paragraph with examples/other details; write both simple and compound sentences in a paragraph.
15. write both simple and compound sentences in a paragraph; explain a process as a series of linear steps in chronological order.

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