2025-2026 Pierce College Catalog 
    
    Aug 22, 2025  
2025-2026 Pierce College Catalog
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IE 042 Intensive English Grammar 4 (4 credits)



Course Description
Grammar 4 is an English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) course for students who need to develop low-advanced English language skills. Students will study low-advanced grammar concepts. Students must reach 80% competency overall in order to pass to the next level.

Course Content
Participial phrases  Restrictive, nonrestrictive and reduced adjective clauses  Noun clauses  Real and unreal conditionals  Adverbials of condition, cause, degree, focus and stance

Student Outcomes
 

Upon completion of the course, students will be able to perform the following outcomes at a low-advanced language level:

  1. Communicate using highly complex grammatical structures.
  2. Examine syntax to recognize and use highly complex expressions. 
  3. Apply grammar and mechanics to create sentences with greater grammatical complexity.
  4. Use clauses and phrases in complex expressions to create information-rich sentences. 


Degree Outcomes
 

Program Outcome 1: apply college-ready English language skills in a U.S. higher education environment.   

Effective Communication: Graduates will be able to craft and exchange ideas and information in a variety of situations, in response to audience, context, purpose, and motivation. 



Lecture Contact Hours 40
Lab Contact Hours 0
Clinical Contact Hours 0
Total Contact Hours 40

Potential Methods
Individual/Group project  Tests, quizzes, and exams Class discussion  Self-assessment  Peer assessment  Instructor observation



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