ENGLISH LANGUAGE STUDIES
ESL 1700 HIGH-INTERMEDIATE
NELP 1700-A34
FALL 2024
COURSE DESCRIPTION
ESL 1700 is a student-centered high-intermediate ESL class, which has two goals. The first goal is to provide you with the opportunity to further develop your abilities to read and write at a college level, while improving your English grammar and vocabulary.
Secondly, this class will give you the opportunity to develop your academic studying skills and critical thinking through readings by authors, art critics, and designers.
REQUIRED MATERIALS
• Line Color Form, by Jesse Day
• A bilingual dictionary with reliable information on parts of speech, countability of
nouns, transitive and intransitive verbs, irregular forms, pronunciation, and example sentences.
LEARNING OUTCOMES
By the successful completion of this course, students will be able to:
1. Identify and write with basic rhetorical structures, relevant grammar and vocabulary to express their ideas.
2. Generate specific support within paragraphs and essays.
3. Identify and correct sentence structure errors, such as run-ons, fragments, and comma splices.
4. Recognize plagiarism and incorrect citation of outside sources.
5. Correctly format Chicago-style. footnotes and bibliography.
6. Read non-technical material for main ideas with minimal help from dictionaries.
7. Identify an author’s point of view and purpose.
8. Participate in informal discussions in and out of the classroom as well as give regular presentations without reading material.
9. Actively participate as an audience member of a presentation.
10. Follow directions, and ask for clarification from an instructor about assignments.
COURSE REQUIREMENTS
Participation and attendance
Homework
Presentation
Formal writing assignments
Tests and quizzes
FINAL GRADE CALCULATION
• Participation 40% of grade
• Projects (papers 60% of grade
and presentations)
Tests, quizzes, in-class writing Weekly homework
If you have too many latenesses, partial absences, and/or late or missed homework, I will lower your grade one step (for example, from an A- to a B+).
COURSE OUTLINE
Chronology and topics are likely to change according to the needs of the class.
Additional assignments will be given on a week to week basis to align with ongoing work.
Holiday: November 29 Thanksgiving Break
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DATES
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Topic
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H.W. Assignments
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WEEK 1
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AUG 30
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Introduction
Writing assignment
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Writing: Personal essay
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WEEK 2
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SEP 6
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Vocabulary
Grammar review – parts of speech
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Reading and
grammar assignments
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WEEK 3
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SEP 13
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Academic writing overview
The writing process - finishing
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Reading and
grammar assignments
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WEEK 4
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SEP 20
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QUIZ 1
The writing process - editing
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Reading (Line Color Form)
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WEEK 5
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SEP 27
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Essay organization/thesis statements Reading strategies
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Writing: Description
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WEEK 6
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OCT 4
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QUIZ 2
Summary outlines
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Reading document 1
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WEEK 7
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OCT 11
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Descriptive paragraphs Grammar topic
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Reading and
grammar assignments
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WEEK 8
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OCT 18
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MIDTERM TEST Snapshots
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Writing: Opinion
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WEEK 9
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OCT 25
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Consultations
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Reading
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WEEK 10
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NOV 1
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Summary and paraphrasing
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Writing: Summary and response
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WEEK 11
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NOV 8
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QUIZ 3
Summary and paraphrasing
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Reading
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WEEK 12
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NOV 15
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Research:
Summary, paraphrase and quotation
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Writing: Research
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WEEK 13
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NOV 22
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QUIZ 4
Research: Citations - basic CS rules
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TBD
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WEEK 14
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DEC 6
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Recurrent grammar and style issues
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TBD
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WEEK 15
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DEC 13
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FINAL TEST
Recurrent grammar and style issues
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