ELA 31 - English for Work

5 CR

Students develop writing, reading, speaking, and listening skills while learning to communicate effectively with supervisors, coworkers, and customers. Students will understand vocabulary for workplace documents and health and safety.

This is intermediate to advanced English for English Language Learners.

Course Requirements: Bellevue College email and Canvas Grading: BeDA

Prerequisite(s): Department Consent Required

Course Outcomes
Outcomes align with College and Career Readiness Standards (CCR), English Language Proficiency Standards (ELP), and Institutional Learning Outcomes (ILO). Upon course completion, students should be able to:

Share information or your opinion on a topic using facts, details, and organization to support your main ideas, and speak at a pace that listeners can follow. (CCR Speaking & Listening Anchor 4.C: ELP 1.5)
Differentiate between contexts that call for formal English (e.g. presenting ideas) and informal (e.g. small-group discussion). (CCR Speaking and Listening Anchor 6.C: ELP 7.5)
Explain events, procedures, ideas, or concepts in technical text based on specific information in the text. (CCR Reading Anchor 3.C: ELP 9.5)
Produce clear and coherent writing in which the development, organization, and style are appropriate to task, purpose, and audience. (CCR Writing Anchor 4. C)
Demonstrate command of the conventions of English grammar and usage when writing or speaking. (CCR Language Anchor 1.C: ELP 10.5)

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