Multi-Level 1 & 2

Level 1 (High Beginning) Objectives

IELI 1230-001 Cross-Culture Talk

Level 2 (Low Intermediate) Objectives

IELI 1230-002 Cross-Culture Talk

Level 3 (Intermediate) Objectives

IELI 2330 Spoken Discourse and Cross-Culture Communication

Level 4 (High Intermediate-Advanced) Objectives

IELI 2440 Academic Discourse

Program Assessment / Exit Criteria*

• improve oral communication with native English speakers

• use language in different situations related to North American culture

• develop skills in group conversation in both formal and informal situations

• use technology relevant to course goals

• become familiar with verbal and nonverbal communication

• improve pronunciation

• prepare for group work in an academic environment

• learn communication skills needed to live in academic and social settings at USU

• develop vocabulary (conversation, slang, idioms)

• develop skills and strategies for successful communication with native English speakers

• increase awareness of cross-cultural differences and similarities

• collect, analyze, and organize information for group presentation

• use technology relevant to course goals

• demonstrate comprehensibility while giving an academic presentation

• use visual support in an academic presentation

• use video for self evaluation

• research and prepare an academic presentation

Students are able to plan and deliver a five- to ten-minute presentation on an academic topic. The presentation incorporates one or more of the following rhetorical modes:

• extended definition of concept or term

• description of object or visual representation

• interpretation of data

• description and explanation of process

• problem-solution

Additional criteria include:

• presentation has clearly delineated introduction, body, and conclusion

• body organization can be discerned (e.g., chronological, spatial, logical)

• speaker gives enough detail to develop the topic

• speaker explains the meaning of important terms

• speaker invites and effectively handles audience questions

• visuals are relevant

• visuals are sufficiently large and clear

• visual representations (e.g., diagrams or graphs) are titled and labeled

• outlines are text-lean

• errors in text are few and minor

• speaker comprehensibility and fluency are acceptable

Multi-Level 1 & 2

Level 1 (High Beginning) Objectives

IELI 1240-001 Integrated Skills

Level 2 (Low Intermediate)

Objectives

IELI 1240-002 Integrated Skills

Level 3 (Intermediate) Objectives

IELI 2310

Comprehending Academic Discourse

Level 4 (High Intermediate-Advanced)

Objectives

IELI 2410 Comprehending Lecture Discourse

Program Assessment / Exit Criteria*

• integrate listening comprehension, reading, spoken English, & writing

• study grammar related to course content

• summarize and report information

• use technology relevant to course goals

• develop listening strategies for understanding authentic language

• listen for main ideas and details

• develop vocabulary related to listening passages

• develop note-taking skills and methods

• use technology relevant to course goals

• demonstrate ability to understand language features of lectures as to content importance

• develop note-taking strategies and techniques

• use technology relevant to course goals

• identify topic announcements (sub-topic announcements)

• identify examples

• identify supporting information

• identify organization of information in academic lectures (definition sequences, classification sequences, concept explanation, and problem solution, etc.

• identify discourse features of lectures to be noted or ignored such as out of order information, return to topic, digression, postponement, etc.

• identify salient information from interaction.

• identify efficacious personal type of note taking form demonstrated types such as key word outlines, bulleted, mapping or a self-organized system.

• ability to go back and understand information to review (notes organized, legible, etc.)

Multi-Level

1 & 2

Level 1 (High Beginning) Objectives

IELI 2450-001 Topics

Level 2 (Low Intermediate)

IELI 2450-002 Topics

Level 3 (Intermediate) Objectives

IELI 2450-003 Topics

Level 4 (High Intermediate- Advanced)

Objectives

IELI 2470 Cross-Cultural Perspectives on American Culture

Program Assessment / Exit Criteria*

• improve reading, listening comprehension, spoken English, & writing through content-based instruction

• study grammar related to course content

• use technology relevant to course goals

• improve reading, listening comprehension, spoken English, & writing through content-based instruction

• study grammar related to course content

• use technology relevant to course goals

• develop an understanding of what culture is and how it influences behaviors, beliefs and values.

• broaden understanding of American culture

• develop observational skills to evaluate behavior and practices the students encounter

• use technology relevant to course goals

Assessed through assessing Reading, Writing, Speaking, and Listening.

Level 1 (High Beginning)

Objectives

IELI 1160 Reading 1

Level 2 (Low Intermediate)

Objectives

IELI 1260 Reading 2

Level 3 (Intermediate)

Objectives

IELI 2360 Reading Authentic Texts

Level 4 (High Intermediate- Advanced) Objectives

IELI 2460 Reading from Academic Sources

Program Assessment / Exit Criteria*

• develop vocabulary

• use a dictionary (monolingual and/or bilingual)

• improve reading comprehension

• develop reading skills and strategies

• use technology relevant to course goals

• develop reading skills (e.g. skimming, finding main ideas details, general vs. specific idea, summarizing)

• develop vocabulary attack skills (affixes, word webs, etc.)

• use dictionary

• recognize main ideas and details

• use technology relevant to course goals

• make visual representations to organize and summarize important content of a text

• develop reading skills and strategies for successful comprehension

• read for a variety of different purposes and adjust reading strategies accordingly

• recognize several academic and popular genres

• build academic vocabulary

• distinguish main ideas and supporting details

• use text structure to facilitate comprehension

• use technology relevant to course goals

• develop advanced reading skills to prepare for in university coursework

• develop library skills needed in academic research

• take and use notes

• acquire discipline-specific vocabulary and Academic Word List vocabulary

• improve reading speed and comprehension

• engage in critical reading

• use technology relevant to course goals

• can distinguish several common text genres

• can identify basic purpose(s) of a text

• can scan text for specific information when appropriate

• can make effective use of a dictionary when necessary

• can survey a text for overview of structure & content

• can distinguish main ideas and supporting details

• can use one of several methods for depicting text structure & content to be learned

• can effectively summarize a text

Level 1 (High Beginning)

Objectives

IELI 1120 Writing 1

Level 2 (Low Intermediate)

Objectives

IELI 1220 Writing from Sources

Level 3 (Intermediate)

Objectives

IELI 2320 Writing Authentic Texts

Level 4 (High Intermediate-Advanced) Objectives

IELI 2420 Writing from Academic Sources

Program Assessment Criteria*

• learn forms and functions of grammatical features appropriate to writing task

• develop personal and academic writing such as narrative and description

• develop beginning level writing at the sentence to paragraph level

• learn revision process

• use technology relevant to course goals

• write sentences and paragraphs (Information packaging, functional grammar)

• construct a good paragraph (format, conventions, rhetoric)

• introduce different kinds of paragraphs (genre, discourse forms)

• continue developing revision process

• learn forms and functions of grammatical features

• use technology relevant

course goals

• identify conventions of academic writing

• write several types of paragraphs and short academic essays

• practice rhetorical organization of the paragraph and academic essay

• write essays, answer exam questions, summarize information, and paraphrase correctly

• practice writing as a process

• write from sources (textbook, news, popular genres, discussions, Internet investigations)

• learn forms and functions of grammatical features appropriate to writing task

• use technology relevant to course goals

• practice writing skills necessary for success in university level studies

• revise writing to improve organization, unity and coherence

• use resources in library to gather information to support your ideas

• avoid plagiarism by summarizing, paraphrasing, synthesizing and citing information

• produce documented writings using information

from several sources

• use technology relevant to course goals

• gather information and develop ideas for writing

• construct fully developed, documented academic paragraphs

• paraphrase and summarize the ideas of others

• show credibility of sources

• acknowledge ideas of other writers through in-text citations and reference lists

• understand the principle and avoidance of plagiarism

• type and format writings in a word processor

• send and receive emails with attachments

• use on-line resources to find journal and magazine articles

• use internet to find information

• evaluate sources of information for relevance and quality