DHHE 0609: English for Academic & Workplace Access 9 

Description

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Corequisites

Course Learning Outcomes

• Receptive ASL 1) Identify stated, implied, and some unstated meanings and functional expressions in complex formal social interactions between participants with varying roles, relationships, and status. 2) Understand and integrate complex, somewhat detailed, and extensive multistep directions and instructions for familiar processes or procedures. 3) Follow cohesion links in discourse to carry out the procedure or process. 4) Identify main intent, main idea, factual details, words and expressions, and inferred meanings in transcripts from captioned video persuasive texts. 5) Evaluate extended suggestions for appropriateness, usefulness, relevance, and validity of the proposed solution. 6) Demonstrate critical comprehension of an extensive lecture or presentation.
• Expressive ASL 1) Manage a range of personal, business, and academic interactions, using appropriate assertive communication strategies. 2) Contribute to discussion or debate in small formal groups by negotiating discussion points and using strategies to keep the discussion on track. 3) Interact one-on-one to provide, obtain and discuss detailed complex information and opinions in order to coordinate teamwork or assignments. 4) Give multistep instructions about complex familiar technical and non-technical tasks, procedures and processes. 5) Raise an issue with an authority figure/group in person or through video. 6) Present a formal proposal to address concerns or deal with problems. 7) Co-facilitate to a debate, discussion, or meeting. 8) Argue a point persuasively through a demonstration, briefing, report, or position paper on familiar or researched topics.
• Receptive English 1) Identify factual details and underlying meanings in complex written communication. 2) Follow an extended set of formal multi-step instructions and directions for familiar procedures in complex texts. 3) Identify purpose, topic, key information, factual, and underlying meanings in complex texts to inform significant decisions, including fine print. 4) Identify main ideas, relevant details, facts, concepts, and underlying meaning in complex texts, and present them in an alternate form, such as a chart or visual display. 5) Identify organization of text, topic sentences, relationships between paragraphs and thematic patterns in order to analyze or evaluate ideas. 6) Locate, integrate, and paraphrase several pieces of information contained in formatted in extensive and visually complex online or print resources.
• Expressive English (Writing, typing, texting) 1) Convey a range of personal and business messages in semi-formal or formal correspondence. 2) Write functional notes, outlines or summaries, conveying essential information and reducing it to main points, with accurate supporting details with no major factual omissions or errors. 3) Take accurate, organized notes in point form from a live or recorded captioned visual presentation capturing decisions, actions to be taken, and policy statements in meeting minutes. 4) Reduce complex information and ideas from multiple sources. 5) Complete extensive complex forms and report documents with pre-set formats. 6) Write a range of business or service correspondence for a broad range of purposes. 7) Write essays, reports, or narratives up to 1,500 words to relate past events; to describe and compare complex ideas, phenomena, or processes; or to express or analyze opinions. 8) Write a paragraph to summarize complex information in questionnaires, graphs, charts.

Prior Learning Assessment & Recognition (PLAR)

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Course topics

• Circles: Self, Family, Community Academics & Trades Digital Media Workplace Entrepreneurial Activities Canadian Society