ESL 176Advanced ESL Oral Communication

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This low-advanced ESL course focuses on the development of oral communication skills in academic and professional settings. Students listen and respond to lectures, presentations, and discussions on advanced academic and professional topics. Course emphasis is on critical discussion and presentations, strengthening of comprehension and fluency, search for bias, effective note-taking strategies, and vocabulary enrichment. Students build strategies of analysis and evaluation of main ideas, details, facts, and opinions. This course takes a content-based approach to instruction, connecting skills to cultural context, focusing on topics of U.S. history, religion, and/or politics in preparation for college-level coursework. This is a noncredit course mirroring ESL 126 (credit). Recommended Preparation: ESL 116 or ESL 166.