Course Outline of Record

Item	Value
Eff Term	Fall 2026
Curriculum Committee Approval Date	12/03/2025
Top Code	493086 - English as a Second Language - Speaking/Listening
Units	0 Total Units
Hours	36 Total Hours (Lecture Hours 36)
Total Outside of Class Hours	0
Total Student Learning Hours	36
Course Credit Status	Noncredit (N)
Material Fee	No
Basic Skills	Basic Skills (B)
Repeatable	Yes; Repeat Limit 99
Open Entry/Open Exit	Yes
Grading Policy	P/NP/SP Non-Credit (D)

Course Description

This course is the second in a series of three designed to help English learners improve their ability to communicate orally. In this intermediate course, students will focus on increasing their accuracy and fluency in speech and begin exploring the connection between the English pronunciation system and its spelling. This is an open-entry course. ADVISORY: ELL A026N or ELL A036N. Noncredit. NOT DEGREE APPLICABLE. Not Transferable.

Course Level Student Learning Outcome(s)

1. Students will demonstrate intelligible pronunciation of short phrases and expressions with the correct vowel and consonant production
2. Students will demonstrate intelligible pronunciation of short phrases and expressions with correct use of word stress and prosody

Course Objectives

• 1. Students will be able to distinguish and produce the vowel phonemes of American English including the off-glide and lax vowels.
• 2. Students will be able to distinguish and produce the consonant phonemes of American English including continuants, stops, and sonorants counterparts.
• 3. Students will be able to identify and pronounce the correct number of syllables in a word.
• 4. Students will be able to correctly stress multi-syllabic words
• 5. Students will be able to read passages and conversations with the correct rhythm and reductions
• 6. Students will be able to discuss English phonemes with metalinguistic awareness of placement, articulation, voicing, etc.

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Lecture Content

Section 1: Segmentals and Contrastive Phonemes

• Off-glide vowels and diphthongs. Linking with these elements.

  • /iʸ/ /eʸ/ /ay/ /oʷ/ /uʷ/ /aw/

• Lax and back vowels

  • /ɪ/ /ɛ/ /æ/ /ə/ /ɑ/ /ʊ/ 

• Continuants and stops and linking with these elements.

  • /θ/ /ð/ vs /t/ /d/

  • /f/ /v/ vs /p/ /b/

  • /h/ vs /g/

  • /ʃ/ vs /dʒ/ /tʃ/

• Pronouncing ‘t’

  • The glottal stop

  • Linking with a flap-t

  • Aspiration vs. no aspiration

  • Dropping ‘t’

• Voiced and Voiceless sounds and linking them

  • /ʃ/ /ʒ/

  • /s/ /z/

  • /f/ /v/

• Sonorants

  • /r/ /l/ /n/

Section 2ː Rhythm and Prosody

• Counting syllables

  • Recognizing syllable count

  • Adding or removing syllables

  • Syllabic consonants

• Grammar Endings

  • -s ending and adding a syllable

  • -ed ending and adding a syllable

• Word stress

  • Contrastive word stress

  • Suffixes and word stress

• Stressing content words

  • Recognizing rhythm and stressed content words

  • Unstressing function words

• Reducing grammar words

  • Reductions of ‘to’ ‘and’ ‘of’

  • Contractions

Method(s) of Instruction

• Enhanced NC Lect (NC1)
• Live Online Enhanced NC Lect (NC9)
• Online Enhanced NC Lect (NC5)

Instructional Techniques

Modeling and demonstration of target pronunciation sounds, intonational patterns, and linking.  Explanation of articulation of target sounds.  Self-evaluation of audio recordings Group evaluation of pronunciation in mid-length presentations and conversations about less familiar topics

Reading Assignments

Students will read texts with increasingly unfamiliar vocabulary about less familiar topics to practice spelling and pronunciation. (approximately 1/2 hour per week)

Writing Assignments

Students will draft mid-length presentations on less familiar topics to present to the class. (approximately 1 1/2 hour per week)

Out-of-class Assignments

Students will practice producing target sounds, intonation/stress patterns, and rhythm patterns. They will record themselves, review and evaluate their pronunciation, and rerecord until satisfied with their production. (approximately 2 hours per week) Students will apply target pronunciation sounds, intonation/stress, and rhythm  patterns to mid-length presentations about less familiar topics and practice short unrehearsed dialogues. (approximately 2 hours per week)

Methods of Student Evaluation

• Short Quizzes
• Report
• Projects (Individual/Group)
• Oral Presentations
• Skills Demonstration

Demonstration of Critical Thinking

Students will evaluate and edit their own pronunciation and spelling of new, multi-syllabic increasingly academic or field-specific words.

Required Writing, Problem Solving, Skills Demonstration

Upon given a description of a situation requiring the target intonation patterns,  students will provide a response demonstrating correct pronunciation of target sounds and intonational/stress patterns.

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Eligible Discipline(s)

• English as a Second Language (ESL): Master’s degree in TESL, TESOL, applied linguistics with a TESL emphasis, linguistics with a TESL emphasis, English with a TESL emphasis, or education with a TESL emphasis OR bachelor’s degree in TESL, TESOL, English with a TESL certificate, linguistics with a TESL certificate, applied linguistics with a TESL certificate, or any foreign language with a TESL certificate AND master’s degree in linguistics, applied linguistics, English, composition, bilingual/bicultural studies, reading, speech, or any foreign language OR the equivalent. Master's degree required.