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 third in a series of three designed to help advanced English learners improve their ability to communicate orally. In this advanced course, students will continue to develop accuracy and fluency in speech and work toward understanding and producing natural speech. This is an open-entry course. ADVISORY: ELL A047N or ELL A056N. Noncredit. NOT DEGREE APPLICABLE. Not Transferable.

Course Level Student Learning Outcome(s)

1. Students will be able to employ correct lexical stress in nouns, verbs, numbers, and polysyllabic words.
2. Students will be able to speak utilizing thought groups with proper reductions, focus words, and intonation.

Course Objectives

• 1. Students will apply knowledge of word stress rules to contrast nouns, verbs, and numbers.
• 2. Students will apply knowledge of word stress rules and vowel reduction to unfamiliar, academic words.
• 3. Students will link words in thought groups using the correct sound changes and assimilation.
• 4. Students will chunk phrases in thought groups using the correct rhythm and reductions.
• 5. Students will accurately stress focus words in a conversation or passage.
• 6. Students will show understanding of the effect of a wide range of intonation patterns on meaning.

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Lecture Content

• Section 1: Contrastive and lexical word stress in nouns, verbs, numbers, multisyllabic words, mid-central schwa reduction​
  • Are students using knowledge of parts of speech to stress words appropriately?
    • ‘produce’, ‘conflict’
  • Are students stressing numbers appropriately to avoid confusion?
    • “teen” numbers vs. “ten” numbers
  • Are multi-syllabic words being stressed properly with predictive rule application?
    • ‘economic’, ‘accessibility’
  • Are compound nouns being stressed properly?
    • ‘lecture hall’, ‘credit cards’
• Section 2: [Chunking of phrases, contrastive intonation and pitch in questions and statements, stressing focus words in discourse, weak forms
  • Are students pausing when appropriate and not pausing when they shouldn’t?
  • Are students using the correct intonation?
    • Falling intonation on wh-questions, rising intonation on A or B options
  • Are focus words stressed in a natural sounding way?
    • Not stressing grammar words, rising on the syllable of the most important word
  • Are common reductions being employed?
    • ‘they’ll,’ ‘to,’ ‘them,’ ‘can’

Method(s) of Instruction

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

Instructional Techniques

Demonstration of target suprasegmental pronunciation elements. Self-evaluation of audio recordings. Group evaluation of pronunciation in mid-length conversations about less familiar topics.

Reading Assignments

Students will read descriptions of the rules governing target pronunciation structures from a variety of sources including textbook, teacher-generated materials, and online sources. (approximately 1 hour per week) Students will read texts on less familiar topics to prepare for extended discussions. (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  hour per week)

Out-of-class Assignments

Students will practice producing target pronunciation structures. They will record themselves, review and evaluate their pronunciation, and rerecord until satisfied with their production. (approximately 1 1/2 hours per week)

Study Non-Contact Hours Recommended

72

Methods of Student Evaluation

• Midterm Exam
• Final Exam
• Short Quizzes
• Objective Examinations
• Projects (Individual/Group)
• Oral Presentations
• Skills Demonstration

Demonstration of Critical Thinking

Students will expand their metalinguistic knowledge in regards to English phonological processes through analysis of forms and recordings of spontaneous speech.

Required Writing, Problem Solving, Skills Demonstration

Students will adjust pronunciation and apply various pronunciation structures as needed in recorded conversations.

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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.