Technical English for International Students COMM 1000

On completion of COMM 1000, students will have had the opportunity to:

• WRITE
• Organize, draft, revise, and edit a variety of text.
• Identify and correct major grammatical, structural and lexical errors; demonstrate control over sentence structure errors in own writing.
• Use a wide range of sentence patterns appropriately in written tasks.
• Use appropriate vocabulary to express message clearly.
• READ
• Read and understand a wide variety of written materials of moderate length.
• Comprehend less familiar and/or technical terms using a range of decoding strategies and context clues.
• Adjust reading techniques according to the level of the material and the purpose of reading.
• SPEAK
• Ask questions to clarify instructions; respond to questions appropriately.
• Demonstrate the use of appropriate verbal and nonverbal communication skills (e.g., turn-taking, eye contact, body language).
• Participate effectively in a variety of classroom activities.
• LISTEN
• Understand discussions, instructions, and lectures at a normal rate of speech.
• Understand a variety of natural speech with a varied rate of delivery with some dependence on repetition.

Effective as of Spring/Summer 2005