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(EIL 201) The International Student in the University

Focuses on the cultural and language needs of international students. Addresses university policies, academic skills, and social and cultural adjustment.

Credit Hours 2.0 Lecture
Prerequisite None
Offered Fall, Winter, Spring
Programs -

Course Outcomes

1. Students will demonstrate their ability to do this by: reading at an adequate rate; using effective reading strategies; learning key vocabulary in the text; focusing on important information; text marking and highlighting; passing quizzes and tests on the content; participating in class in ways that demonstrate understanding.
2. Students will demonstrate their ability to do this by: listening to extended academic discourse; using effective listening strategies; using effective note-taking skills; asking questions and making comments in whole-class settings; passing quizzes and tests on the content using lecture notes; participating in class in ways that demonstrate understanding
3. Students will demonstrate their ability to do this by: participating in whole-class and group interactions both during class and outside of class in culturally and academically appropriate ways; speaking with adequate fluency; using an intelligible accent.
4. Students will demonstrate their ability to do this by: writing academic texts that are sensitive to the audience and purpose of the assignment; writing both with support and independently; using correct grammar and academic vocabulary; writing papers of varying types and lengths that clearly communicate their learning
5. Students will demonstrate their ability to do this by: expressing one’s learning through extended oral discourse; organizing information in a logical manner; using correct grammar and academic vocabulary; speaking with a sufficient degree of fluency; speaking with an intelligible accent; giving an oral presentation
6. Students will demonstrate their ability to do this by: using the words accurately in their speech and writing; recognizing AWL words in reading texts and lectures; passing vocabulary tests.
7. Students will demonstrate their ability to do this by: passing tests of various formats with a variety of purposes.
8. Students will demonstrate their ability to do this by: taking either the Institutional TOEFL test or the SLEP test.
9. Other indicators may include, future voluntary enrollment in EIL electives; completing their responses on the university exit survey. Students will demonstrate their ability to do this by: Actively tracking a custom-made Language action plan specific to each individual.