2025-2026 Pierce College Catalog 
    
    Jul 04, 2025  
2025-2026 Pierce College Catalog
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IE 043 Intensive English Listening & Speaking 4 (6 credits)



Course Description
Listening & Speaking 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 listening and speaking concepts. Students must reach 80% competency overall in order to pass to the next level.

Course Content
Conversation skills  Presentation skills  Research skills Listening comprehension skills Grammar and usage Vocabulary

Student Outcomes
 

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

  1. Use expected register for different audiences and purposes. 

  2. Give speeches and presentations on academic topics which utilize reputable research sources. 

  3. Communicate information and ideas effectively and clearly, including personal, critical and respectful responses.  

  4. Interact with the consideration of positionality, situation, audience and purpose. 

  5. Interpret figurative language and idiomatic expressions. 

  6. Summarize main points and details of course materials.

  7. Examine the topic, details, vocabulary, organizational cues, bias and perspective in listening materials to support comprehension. 



Degree Outcomes
 

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

Program Outcome 2: use academic skills integral to success in a U. S. higher education environment.   

Program Outcome 3: navigate diverse social, cultural and linguistic spaces 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. 

Information Literacy: Graduates will be critical users, creators, and disseminators of information by examining how information is created, valued, and influenced by power and privilege. 



Lecture Contact Hours 60
Lab Contact Hours 0
Clinical Contact Hours 0
Total Contact Hours 60

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



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