ESL 052 - English as a Second Language (ESL) Level 2

• Apply active listening strategies to understand and respond to learned words and phrases in simple questions, statements and high-frequency commands as part of short conversations, explanations, instructions, and narratives where the linguistic complexity is simplified.
• Use a few simple formulas to convey understanding, and ask for repetition or clarification and one or two simple strategies for gathering missing information and/or repairing problems in communication.
• Speak so others can understand to recall and use a limited set of learned words, phrases, and short sentences related to basic personal information, basic objects, and immediate needs in familiar, predictable, and straightforward communication tasks.
• Apply simple strategies (such as gestures, eye contact, and simple, repeated requests for feedback from listener) to monitor effectiveness of the communication and to meet the speaking purpose.
• Read with understanding by decoding and recognizing familiar everyday, simple words in short, simple text by breaking words into parts, tapping out/sounding out syllables, applying pronunciation rules, using picture aids, and recalling oral vocabulary and sight words.
• Demonstrate familiarity with learned words, phrases, and simple sentences.
• Convey ideas in writing by following a highly structured plan to organize ideas around a single familiar topic.
• Appropriately use everyday, familiar vocabulary and simple sentence structures to produce a few sentences on a topic, and make simple edits of grammar, capitalization, spelling, and punctuation based on review and feedback from others.

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