California Community Colleges System Courses

English Acceleration Support

This course is designed for students to enhance and improve their skills to promote success in college-level composition and reading. It consists of instruction in composition and the comprehension an

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Multiple Skills Preparation: Listening, Speaking, and Grammar

ESL 10G is a low-intermediate multi-skills course that helps English language learners improve their listening, speaking, and grammar.

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Multiple Skills Preparation: Reading and Writing

ESL 10W is a low-intermediate multi-skills course that helps English language learners improve their reading and writing skills in a multicultural setting. This course focuses on composing a variety o

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Basic English 1

ESL 11A is an intermediate, multi-skills course that helps English language learners improve their communication skills in a multicultural setting. It focuses on writing academic paragraphs, grammar,

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Pronunciation and Spelling: Vowel and Consonant Sounds

This course offers the study and practice of the vowel and consonant sounds that are basic to North American pronunciation and speech style, and it emphasizes listening skills, auditory discrimination

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Pronunciation: Rhythm and Intonation

This course is designed to help ESL students communicate more effectively by learning the rhythm and intonation patterns of standard North American English. The course includes a brief review of all v

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Conversation and Culture in the U.S.

This speaking/listening course for group “A”, “B”, and “C” level non-native speakers of English examines the cross cultural differences that affect communication. It prepares students to understand an

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The Noun System and Articles

This course helps non-native speakers of English to communicate effectively using the noun system (count, non-count, proper, common, singular, plural), modifiers and quantifiers (possessives; determin

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Using Verb Tenses

This course helps non-native speakers of English to communicate effectively using verb forms including: present, past, future, perfects,passives, conditionals, and modals.

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Sentence Structure and Punctuation

This course helps students whose first language is not English to construct grammatically correct sentences using appropriate punctuation. Students will learn to combine sentence elements (clauses and

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Intermediate Reading Skills

This course is designed for intermediate students who want to improve their reading skills. Students will improve their reading comprehension and critical thinking skills by learning strategies such a

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English Fundamentals 1

This high-intermediate course helps English language learners improve their communication skills in a multicultural setting. It focuses on paragraph and essay writing, reading, academic vocabulary, cr

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English Fundamentals 2

This advanced course helps English language learners refine their communication skills with an emphasis on reading, writing, and critical thinking in a multicultural setting. Students compose multi-pa

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Advanced Grammar Workshop

This course is designed to increase a student’s grammar and sentence-writing skill. Students will recognize and employ the sophisticated language necessary for successful completion of ESL 19A and ESL

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Advanced Grammar and Editing

This is an advanced grammar course designed to improve a student’s syntax and editing proficiency. Concurrent enrollment in this course is highly recommended for success in ESL 19A and ESL 19B.

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