ESL 186Bridge to Academic Oral Communication

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This high-advanced ESL course focuses on the expansion 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 logical, argumentative presentations, identification of research as support, critical discussion, strengthening of comprehension and fluency, evaluation of presented ideas, analysis of bias, expanding effective note-taking strategies, and vocabulary enrichment. 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. Designed to prepare students for degree-applicable courses. This is a noncredit course mirroring ESL 136 (credit). Prerequisite: ESL 126 or ESL 176.