Year Level: 1
EELC141/142 are two semester courses. These courses build upon communication and study skills/strategies taught at previous levels and focus on academic language proficiency, while continuing to improve informal and formal use of English by students. Instructors work with learners to identify individual language learning needs related to their academic work, and often use content- or theme-based approaches to link English to other coursework. Skills addressed in the course include, but are not limited to, using outlines to develop and write essays, drawing conclusions from texts, inferring meaning and authors’ opinions from texts, and giving effective presentations on a variety of topics in class. Students also will work with features of English such as idiom, inference, and appropriateness.