Speaking and Listening: ESL Levels 4 & 5

Fall Quarter 2013

Item # 7229/47

Instructor Information

Name: Kathy Seregow E-mail: Kathleen.seregow@bellevuecollege.edu

Office: R 130 Phone Number: (425) 564-2047

Office Hours: By Appointment School Closure Line: (425) 401-6680

Course Schedule

Dates: September 25 –December 11, 2013

Time: Wednesdays, 5:30– 9:10 pm

No Class Wednesday, October 23

Room: L222

WA Standards

1. We will learn and practice how to speak so others can understand. At the end of this quarter, successful students should be able to:

Recall and use high-frequency vocabulary related to most everyday school, work, and social situations

Decide the purpose for communicating

Choose from a range of strategies to select, organize, and relay information

Apply strategies to monitor and enhance effectiveness of communication and meet the speaking purpose

2. We will learn and practice how to listen actively. At the end of this quarter, successful students should be able to:

Understand and respond to conversations, explanations, instructions and narratives
Know when to use strategies to repair gaps in understanding and give feedback appropriate to the situation
Display growing comfort in communicating with native speakers

Attendance

You need to come to class every time. If you are sick, call or email your teacher. If you leave class and cannot come back, tell the teacher. Students who miss 20% (7.2 hours) will not make progress. Attendance is important to progress to the next level. It is very important.

About Class

Turn off all cell phones during class
You will need paper, pens, and pencils. Bring them to each class
Come to class on time
Do all homework and participate in class (work in groups/pairs, ask questions)
Be polite and respect your classmates. We learn from each other. We can help each other. We must treat one another with respect, even when we have different ideas. We will use professional student behavior that does not disturb other.

Grading

On some of your tests and on your homework, you will receive these numbers:

4 or + . . . . . . . . . . Excellent

3 or √ . . . . . . . . . . .Good

2 or √- . . . . . . . . . . Needs more work

1 or - . . . . . . . . . . . .Beginning

Folders

Each student will keep a folder. The papers in the folder will help show you how much English you learn. Always keep these papers in your folder:

Attendance/grade sheet
Writing goals for this class
ARM sheet

Materials

We will use a wide variety of materials to improve speaking and listening skills. Our core text will be What A World 2 Listening, Milada Broukal, Pearson Longman. It will not be necessary to purchase this book. A class set will be provided. We will cover Unit 11. We will also have conversation worksheets, pronunciation drills, idioms, quotations, and vocabulary builders. We will practice telephone dialogues, songs, interviews and stories. We will focus on listening accuracy, getting essential information and taking notes. We will make oral presentations using clear speech, body language, paraphrasing, and pause fillers. All homework and presentations must be submitted at the time it is due for a passing grade.

Affirmation of Inclusion

Bellevue College is committed to maintaining an environment in which every member of the campus community feels welcome to participate in the life of the college, free from harassment and discrimination.

We value our different backgrounds at Bellevue College, and students, faculty, staff members, and administrators are to treat one another with dignity and respect.

Academic Honesty

Plagiarism (using the ideas or words of another as one’s own without crediting the source) will not be tolerated. Taking papers in whole or part from the internet is unacceptable. This lab website gives more information: http://bellevuecollege.edu/lmc/links/plagiarism.html

Student Code

“Cheating, stealing, plagiarizing and inappropriate/disruptive classroom behavior are violations of the Student Code of Conduct at Bellevue College. Examples of unacceptable behavior include, but are not limited to: talking out of turn, arriving late or leaving early without a valid reason, allowing cell phones/pagers to ring, and inappropriate behavior toward the instructor or classmates. The instructor can refer any violation of the Student Code of Conduct to the Vice President of Student Services for possible probation or suspension from Bellevue College. Specific student rights, responsibilities and appeal procedures are listed in the Student Code of Conduct, available in the office of the Vice President of Student Services.” The Student Code, Policy 2050, in its entirety is located at: http://bellevuecollege.edu/policies/2/2050_student_code.asp

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Policy Statement

We respond only to direct inquiries from students. We discourage third parties (parents, spouses, and friends) from involving themselves because this can slow student growth and progress. We do this because we are committed to student self-advocacy and independence. We also do it because federal law (the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act) mandates that we protect the privacy of student education records, and BC policy mandates that we keep academic performance as a matter between the institution and the student. Requests by students to include third parties in any instructor-student discussion of academic performance will be considered on a case-by-case basis at the discretion of the instructor. You may see the full text of this entire policy Arts and Humanities Commitment to Student Growth and Development at http://bellevuecollege.edu/ArtsHum/studentinfo.asp