Academic C
Applied Grammar
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Course Overview
Course Description
This course focuses on productive accuracy within academic and professional contexts. Students will learn grammar principles and concepts, then apply those principles to spontaneously-produced written and spoken text.
Course Emphasis
- Grammar Form - 40%
- Meaning/Use - 60%
- Writing (30%)
- Speaking (20%)
- Listening (5%)
- Reading (5%)
Course Books and Materials
TBD
Course Learning Outcomes
- Notices target grammar use in listening and reading both in isolation and in at-level text.
- Recognizes target grammar form
- Understands the meaning of target grammar
- Explains when and why target grammar is used
- Uses grammar strategies to infer the meaning of unfamiliar words
- Recognizes the meaning and purpose of signpost words and phrases
- Uses target grammar appropriately* in general academic English
- Generates target grammar form in isolation
- Uses target grammar to participate appropriately
- Explains the reasoning of target grammar use in different contexts (informal, formal, written, and spoken)
- Uses target grammar to respond to a prompt with time constraints and/or preparation time
- Uses grammar strategies to change the meaning and/or part of speech of familiar words
- Uses signpost words and phrases to support organization
- Engages in level-appropriate tasks and functions
- Narrates and describes in all major time frames with some control of aspect
- Asks and answers questions using target grammar
- Adequately responds to unanticipated complications
- Supports opinions about familiar situations and some academic topics
- Uses target grammar for hypothesizing about familiar topics
- Paraphrases text using target grammar
- Uses grammar to connect ideas at the paragraph level
- Uses circumlocution to clarify meaning and maintain fluency
Assessments and Learning Experiences
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