EASL 068: College Preparation – Community Outreach is a course for English language students who have completed Advanced Communications. Students initiate, plan, and facilitate community-based projects which involve interaction with native speakers in real life contexts. Students work independently and in teams to prepare, implement, and evaluate projects. Community Outreach is designed to build leadership skills and improve professional speaking, delivery and reporting methods.
- Teacher: Shana Rablah
EASL 027 Intermediate Reading - Vocabulary and Meaning. This course is an intermediate course for students who speak English as an additional language. Students read and discuss selected articles from the textbook and other sources with a focus on developing vocabulary and understanding meaning. Students develop their knowledge of word forms and use reading strategies such as guessing meaning from context in understanding main ideas. Students are encouraged to do supplementary reading and begin to use an English dictionary.
EASL 037 Intermediate Reading - Current Ideas is an intermediate course for students who speak English as an additional language. Students read and discuss selected simplified and authentic articles from the textbook and other sources with a focus on building vocabulary and knowledge of word forms, applying reading strategies such as predicting and inferring, increasing reading speed, identifying structure, and understanding and responding to current ideas. Students are encouraged to do supplementary reading and use both bilingual and unilingual dictionaries.
- Teacher: Natasha Ala
- Teacher: Tamara Hudson
- Teacher: Paul Spence
This course is an advanced academic course which is intended to help students develop accuracy and gain fluency in the use of complex grammatical structures including noun clauses, adjective clauses, adverb clauses, conjunctions and connections, gerunds and infinitives.
- Teacher: Tamara Hudson
- Teacher: Shana Rablah
- Teacher: Paul Spence
This course focuses on advanced speaking and listening skills. Students use complex grammar, vocabulary and advanced communication strategies to explore relevant issues in a variety of academic, social and cultural situations. Accuracy, fluency, comprehension and quantity of speech are reinforced through conversation, dialogue, debate, role play, listening practice, and other communicative tasks. Students take notes from oral academic discourse including lectures and presentations.
- Teacher: Brian Lye
EASL 091D Movie Making is an interactive communicative seminar which helps students gain confidence and fluency in their use of English by creating a fictional video. Students work cooperatively to write, design, plan, act in, and produce a short movie by the end of the term.
- Teacher: Brian Lye
Advanced Reading - Academic Reading is an advanced course which includes study and discussion of a variety of modified and authentic academic readings, taken from the textbook and other sources. The course focuses on the development of vocabulary and specific reading strategies, including making notes and summarizing information, as well as on the understanding and analysis of texts on academic and social topics. Students develop their ability to read critically, discuss academic texts, and acquire advanced vocabulary.
- Teacher: Murray Peglar