Listening/Speaking Course Expected Student Learning Outcomes
Listed below are the skills students should master by the end of each course. Please contact the ELI Director, Julie Mowrer , at jmowrer@hawaii.edu, if you have questions.
ESL 081 Listening and Speaking, Advanced
By the end of ESL 081 , at the advanced level, successful students should be able to demonstrate the following language skills:
Listening: All conversations and academic lectures are based on advanced and 100-level texts and authentic materials.
- Identify and comprehend main ideas and supporting details in academic lectures of longer-lengths, using authentic vocabulary and presented at a natural pace
- Identify complex numerical information and dates
- Use abbreviations and symbols in note taking consistently and accurately
- Recognize signal words and phrases that introduce organizational structures within lectures, new concepts or vocabulary
- Take and organize notes of longer-length authentic academic lectures and informal listening passages using a variety of appropriate outlining techniques introduced in advanced level texts
- Use information from academic and informal listening passages to both create and take tests and quizzes that include objective and subjective questions, make inferences, summarize, discuss and debate
Speaking: All conversations and academic lectures are based on advanced and 100-level texts and authentic materials.
- Interview classmates using self-created questions; present interview results to group
- Express opinions and support them with examples and facts; agree and disagree with others using techniques introduced in advanced texts
- Communicate with professors or other professionals by phone to set up appointments for which to later conduct interviews; present interview results to the class
- Use appropriate vocabulary and grammar in speaking at the advanced level
- Use information from authentic academic and informal listening passages to summarize orally and discuss and/or debate critically
- Participate in whole class and small group discussions by using appropriate discussion strategies such as keeping the discussion going, turn-taking, asking for clarification or confirmation, paraphrasing, keeping the discussion on topic, and trying to reach a consensus
- Speak comprehensibly at the advanced level
- Prepare and give well-organized and well-delivered 8-12 minute presentations, both in groups and individually, on academic subjects requiring research, with and without visuals
- Debate on local and global issues
ESL 071 Listening and Speaking, High-Intermediate
By the end of ESL 071 , at the high-intermediate level, successful students should be able to demonstrate the following language skills:
Listening: All conversations and academic lectures are based on high-intermediate level texts and authentic materials.
- Identify and comprehend main ideas and supporting details in academic lectures of medium-length, mostly authentic vocabulary and presented at a pace slightly slowed by pausing and repetition of key points
- Identify numerical information and dates
- Use some abbreviations and symbols in note taking
- Recognize signal words and phrases that introduce new concepts or vocabulary
- Take and organize notes of medium-length academic lectures and informal listening passages using a variety of appropriate outlining techniques introduced in intermediate level text
- Use information from academic and informal listening passages to answer questions, infer and summarize
Speaking: All conversations and academic lectures are based on high-intermediate level texts and authentic materials.
- Interview classmates using wh- questions; present interview results to group
- Express opinions; agree and disagree with others using techniques introduced in high-intermediate texts
- Give advice
- Make phone calls of 2-4 minutes.
- Conduct interviews of 5-10 questions of persons outside class.
- Use appropriate vocabulary and grammar in speaking at the high-intermediate level
- Use information from academic and informal listening passages to summarize orally and discuss
- Participate in whole class and small group discussions by using appropriate conversation and turn-taking skills
- Speak comprehensibly at the high-intermediate level
- Organize and give 5-10 minute presentations on academic subjects, using limited notes and appropriate visuals and high-intermediate presentation skills
ESL 061 Listening and Speaking, Intermediate
By the end of ESL 061 , at the intermediate level, successful students should be able to demonstrate the following language skills:
Listening: All conversations and academic lectures are based on low-intermediate to intermediate level texts and authentic materials.
- Identify and comprehend the main idea and supporting details of short academic lectures with some simplified vocabulary and presented at a pace slowed by pausing and repetition
- Use stressed words to identify key details from conversations and short lectures
- Use intonation to make inferences
- Identify numerical information and dates
- Comprehend and follow directions on simplified maps
- Take notes using a partial outline of short academic lectures and informal listening passages
- Use completed outlines to answer questions and summarize
Speaking: All conversations and academic lectures are based on low-intermediate to intermediate level texts and authentic materials.
- Introduce self and classmates.
- Greet and respond to greetings
- Ask and answer wh- and y/n questions
- Make statements; agree and disagree with others’ statements
- Ask for clarification with techniques introduced at the intermediate level
- Make short phone calls of 1-3 minutes seeking specific information.
- Conduct simple interviews
- Ask for and give directions using common phrases introduced in intermediate-level texts
- Use appropriate vocabulary and grammar in speaking at the intermediate level
- Participate in whole class and small group discussions
- Speak comprehensibly at the intermediate level
- Organize and give presentations of 3-8 minutes on academic subjects, using notes and intermediate level presentation skills