English for Multilingual Students
EMLS 35.0 UNITS
ESL Grammar, Reading, and Writing 3
Class Hours: 5.0 Lecture
Total Contact Hours: 90 Lecture
This course introduces advanced and high-frequency structures of English and provides practice of these structures. Texts and supplemental materials are used as well as the students' environment. Sounds continue to be practiced orally. Writing and reading reinforce comprehension.
(Formerly ESL 3)
(Not Degree Applicable)
EMLS 71.5 UNITS
ESL Beginning Speaking and Listening
Class Hours: 1.5 Lecture
Total Contact Hours: 27 Lecture
This course identifies and improves the production of American speech sounds. Students prepare, practice and present various oral messages. Emphasis is on stress and intonation. Topics center on students' needs and personal experiences.
(Formerly ESL 7)
(Not Degree Applicable)
EMLS 103.0 UNITS
Speaking and Listening 1
Class Hours: 3.0 Lecture
Total Contact Hours: 54 Lecture
Students practice oral communication and listening skills. Emphasis is on fluency, correct word usage, and syntax. Topics range from everyday situations to elementary abstractions.
(Formerly ESL 10)
(Not Degree Applicable)
EMLS 111.5 UNITS
Reading 1
Class Hours: 1.5 Lecture
Total Contact Hours: 27 Lecture
This course is designed for ESL students who wish to improve in fundamental reading skills. The emphasis will be on phonics, word recognition skills, and basic thinking as they relate to reading.
(Formerly ESL 11)
(Not Degree Applicable)
EMLS 121.5 UNITS
Pronunciation
Class Hours: 1.5 Lecture
Total Contact Hours: 27 Lecture
This course aids the students in reproducing the sounds of American English accurately. Attention focuses on the individual needs of the students.
(Formerly ESL 12)
(Not Degree Applicable)
EMLS 143.0 UNITS
Pronunciation Plus
Class Hours: 3.0 Lecture
Total Contact Hours: 54 Lecture
This is an intensive pronunciation course that includes practice with the sounds of American English in all contexts: syllables, words, sentences, and conversation and an in-depth practice of the stress and intonational patterns of American English. Enunciation (production of sounds with clarity and precision) of American English in varying contexts will be stressed. Each student will be evaluated and assisted with his/her pronunciation difficulties.
(Formerly ESL 14)
(Not Degree Applicable)
EMLS 203.0 UNITS
Speaking and Listening 2
Class Hours: 3.0 Lecture
Total Contact Hours: 54 Lecture
This course is a continuation of EMLS 10. Students practice oral communication and listening skills. Fluency, correct usage, and syntax are emphasized. Topics are of a more abstract nature.
(Formerly ESL 20)
(Not Degree Applicable)
EMLS 21A3.0 UNITS
Intermediate Vocabulary
Class Hours: 3.0 Lecture
Total Contact Hours: 54 Lecture
This course is for ESL students who wish to improve vocabulary skills. Emphasis is on building vocabulary, dictionary skills, and word recognition skills to be used in everyday language and college courses. Students will be introduced to the most frequently used English words and will also learn how to infer meaning from context.
(Formerly ESL 21A)
(Not Degree Applicable)
EMLS 21B3.0 UNITS
Advanced Vocabulary
Class Hours: 3.0 Lecture
Total Contact Hours: 54 Lecture
This course is for advanced ESL students who wish to improve vocabulary skills at a level beyond that of the intermediate. The emphasis is on general and specialized vocabulary development, advanced dictionary skills, word recognition skills, improvement of sight vocabulary, and application of advanced vocabulary in context techniques.
(Formerly ESL 21B)
(Not Degree Applicable)
EMLS 351.5 UNITS
Editing Advanced Grammar/Syntax
Class Hours: 1.5 Lecture / 0.5 Laboratory
Total Contact Hours: 27 Lecture / 9 Laboratory
This course is designed for ESL students in writing courses who need help with grammar troublespots that cause difficulties in writing. Rather than provide English grammar review, the course concentrates on rules to help the student apply general principles. It will aid in finding ways to examine and evaluate writing in terms of grammatical accuracy.
(Formerly ESL 35)
(Not Degree Applicable)
EMLS 1045.0 UNITS
Grammar, Reading, Writing (Intermediate)
Class Hours: 5.0 Lecture / 1.0 Laboratory
Total Contact Hours: 90 Lecture / 18 Laboratory
This is a low-intermediate to intermediate integrated skills course designed to improve academic reading, writing, grammar, and communication skills of non-native speakers of English. Students continue to use the writing process as a means of developing ideas into clear, correct, and effective writing. Critical reading, expository paragraph writing, application of advanced grammar concepts, sentence variety, vocabulary development, and communication skills are taught with teaching methods that facilitate comprehension for English language learners. This course is not open to students enrolled or received credit for ESL 4.
(Formerly ESL 104)
Transfer Credit: CSU
EMLS 1055.0 UNITS
Grammar, Reading, and Writing(Advanced)
Class Hours: 5.0 Lecture / 1.0 Laboratory
Total Contact Hours: 90 Lecture / 18 Laboratory
This is a high-intermediate integrated skills course designed to improve academic reading, writing, grammar, and communication skills of non-native speakers of English. Students continue to use the writing process as a means of developing ideas into clear, correct, and effective writing. Critical reading, expository paragraph writing, application of advanced grammar concepts, sentence variety, vocabulary development, and communication skills are taught with teaching methods that facilitate comprehension for English language learners. This course is not open to students who enrolled or received credit in ESL 5.
(Formerly ESL 105)
Transfer Credit: CSU
EMLS 1205.0 UNITS
Preparation for College Writing for Non-Native English Speakers
Class Hours: 5.0 Lecture / 1.0 Laboratory
Total Contact Hours: 90 Lecture / 18 Laboratory
This is an advanced ESL writing course designed to improve academic reading, writing, grammar, listening, and speaking skills of non-native English speakers in preparation for college classes. Students continue to use the writing process as a means of developing ideas into clear, correct, and effective writing. Critical reading, summarizing, and expository essay writing are taught with teaching methods that facilitate comprehension for English language learners.
(Formerly ESL 120)
Transfer Credit: CSU; UC
EMLS 1525.0 UNITS
Advanced College English for Multilingual Students
Class Hours: 5.0 Lecture / 1.0 Laboratory
Total Contact Hours: 90 Lecture / 18 Laboratory
This course is designed to prepare non-native English speakers for college-level writing and for entrance into English 100. Students develop the ability to write clearly, effectively and correctly, using standard American English. Students write a series of compositions that integrate critical reading and thinking, the writing process, and library research. Students continue to develop listening comprehension, speaking skills, grammar, sentence structure, and vocabulary to facilitate second language acquisition.
(Formerly ESL 152)
Transfer Credit: CSU; UC
EMLS 1805.0 UNITS
College Composition for Multilingual Students
Class Hours: 5.0 Lecture
Total Contact Hours: 90 Lecture
This course incorporates and contextualizes reading and writing strategies to develop expository prose with an emphasis on effective organization and correctness for multilingual/ non-native English-speaking students. Students will read and comprehend sophisticated texts and respond to diverse ideas and perspectives through writing expository and/or persuasive compositions. This course is not open to students currently enrolled in or who have completed ENGL C1000 or ENGL C1000E.
(Formerly ESL 180)
Transfer Credit: CSU; UC