ESL 63 Advanced Conversation & Culture
This core course helps advanced ESL students develop an understanding of American culture through reading, writing, speaking, and listening activities. Students develop skills in the areas of fluency, visual literacy, critical thinking, and media fluency. Through reading the news, students reinforce grammar skills and gain new vocabulary and awareness of idiomatic expressions while discussing world events and asking questions about objectivity and the role of media in shaping public opinion. Students move from being consumers of news to producers of news by creating individual and group projects based upon online research, interviews, and interactive field trips. Speaking and writing skills are evaluated on a weekly basis. Students produce original reports in forms that might include blog posts, recorded interviews, audio reports, and photo essays with live or recorded narration. Prerequisites: ESL050, Oxford Online Placement Test score of 60-69, TOEFL iBT score of 55-74, or IELTS Band 5-6.5.
Prerequisite
( ESL050 C- O