Course Overview
This course provides students with the writing, speaking, listening, and reading skills required to succeed in BCIT's other Professional English Language Development courses. You will practice grammar skills and language structures useful for technical communication, including writing and speaking about your background, writing formal definitions and descriptions, summarizing, and making presentations. NOTE: Seat availability is limited and registration is on a first-come-first-serve basis only. We do not guarantee or reserve seats for students with no exceptions. Please also be mindful that taking the COMM 0015 test and receiving a placement does NOT guarantee students a seat for a course in the next available term/schedule. Financial aid is also available for this course. Your application must be submitted NO LATER THAN THE FIRST DAY OF CLASS. Note: This course is now offered in the EPAS program as EPAS 0451
Prerequisite(s)
- For admission into COMM 0004, students must have completed ONE of the following: (1) COMM 0015 (placement at the COMM 0004 level) within the past 12 months OR (2) Completion of COMM 0003 within the last 12 months OR (3) CLB/LINC or CELPIP score of 7 or better in both reading and writing within the last 12 months OR (4) IELTS (academic format only) of 5.5 or better in both reading and writing within the last 24 months OR (5) Completion of ELSK 620 through the VCC Pathway program OR (6) Completion of ISEP Level 4 with 60% or better in each course (if taken before January 2021) OR (7) TAE 3 with 60% (if taken after January 2021) OR (8) Completion of LEAP 6 through the Langara LEAP program OR (9) TOEFL score of 46 or better within the last 24 months OR (10) CAEL score of 40 or better within the last 12 months. Please check our website for other placement level(s) if your scores do not meet the prerequisites for COMM 0004: https://www.bcit.ca/computing-academic-studies/communication/professional-english-language-development/placement/ .
Credits
0.0
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Learning Outcomes
Upon successful completion, the student will be able to:
WRITING Skills
- Organize, draft, revise, and edit a variety of texts.
- Identify and correct major grammatical, structural and lexical errors; demonstrate control over sentence structure errors in own reading.
- Use a wide range of sentence patterns appropriately in written tasks.
- Recognize and demonstrate an understanding of audience (e.g. needs, background knowledge) and purpose.
- Use appropriate vocabulary to express message clearly.
- Choose and apply appropriate paragraph organization when writing on a familiar, relevant or previously researched subject.
READING Skills
- Read and understand a wide variety of written materials of moderate length.
- Read and analyze a wide range of texts to analyze sentence structures.
- 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 for reading.
SPEAKING Skills
- Ask questions to clarify instructions; respond to questions appropriately.
- Demonstrate the use of appropriate of verbal and nonverbal communication skills (e.g., turn-taking, eye contact, body language).
- Provide appropriate peer feedback.
- Participate effectively in a variety of classroom activities.
LISTENING Skills
- 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 Fall 2003
Related Programs
Technical Communication Skills for EAL Students 3 (COMM 0004) is offered as a part of the following programs:
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