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AELE 0056 - English as a Second Language Pre HSE


Amarillo College’s free, non-credit English as a Second Language (ESL) Pre-High School Equivalency (Pre-HSE) class is provided through the Career Ready You Program. It welcomes students from around the world and offers opportunities for people who want to learn English in preparation to enter Amarillo College’s High School Equivalency (HSE) classes, post-secondary academic or career training programs. Pre-HSE provides eight weeks of instruction in listening, speaking, reading, writing, and civics.  Understand the function of conventional and digital print and convey meaning that is connected between oral and written language.  Recognize the ways print is organized. Display ability to segment words into separate parts, blend sounds to form unfamiliar words, and manipulate sounds aurally and orally.  Analyze word structure to decode-encode written and spoken English.  Use skills such as phonetic and morphemic analysis. Make logical inferences from texts. Read with fluency in rate, accuracy, expression, and phrasing. Apply vocabulary and concepts accurately in reading, speaking, and writing.  Study relationships to other words and concepts by using context clues.  Apply knowledge of roots, affixes to infer the meaning of new words. Draw and support inferences from texts to summarize what is presented.  Draw conclusions.  Evaluate and use literal and figurative language.  Prewrite, compose, revise, and edit texts.  Write with clear focus, logical development and ideas in well-organized paragraphs.

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Notes
This is an NCBO (non-course based option) and does not meet elective or graduation requirements.



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