Bellevue University

English for Special Purposes 413

Graduate Grammar

 

Prerequisites: Placement test

 

Credit:  One credit hour

 

Catalog Description: This course is designed for graduate-level limited English proficient students to incorporate form, meaning, and usage of grammar.

 

Mission:  The mission of the ESL program is to help students with limited English proficiency to acquire English language skills in reading, writing, speaking, and listening through computer technology, along with sufficient knowledge of American culture in order for them to succeed in other academic courses.

 

Purpose:  The purpose of this course is to incorporate intermediate level grammar into the academic skills of writing, reading, listening, and speaking.

 

Objectives:  This course is designed so that the student will learn:

 

1.  To recognize and incorporate the form, meaning, and usage of verbs.

2.  To recognize and incorporate the form, meaning, and usage of word groupings.

3.  To recognize and incorporate the form, meaning, and usage of nouns.

4.  To recognize and incorporate the form, meaning, and usage of adjectives and adverbs.

 

Assessment and General Assignments:  Assignments include textbook  exercises, class work, homework, five quizzes, two tests, and  a final exam.

 

Evaluation and Grading:  The final grade will be based upon the student's attendance, class work, homework, active participation, quizzes, tests, and the final examination.  The final examination will be collected and kept on record.

 

Course Outline:

 

1.        Verbs

1. Overview of the English Verb System
2. Passive
3. Modals
4. Infinitives
5. Gerunds
6. Using Present Time
7. Present Perfect
8. Future Time
9. Past Time

 

2.        Word Groupings

1. Questions
2. Clauses
3. Phrases

 

3.        Nouns

1. Possessives
2. Quantifiers and Collective Nouns
3. Articles in Discourse

 

4.        Adjectives and Adverbs

1. Statements of Degree
2. Comparatives
3. Demonstratives in Discourse

 

Signatures:

 

 

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Originator                                                                                                                                                            Date­

 

 

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Area Chair                                                                                                                                                           Date

 

 

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Center Director                                                                                                                                                   Date

 

 

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Academic Review Committee                                                                                                                            Date

 

 

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Dean, College of Arts and Sciences                                                                                                                Date

 

 

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VPAA                                                                                                                                                                    Date

 

Required Texts and/ or Materials:

 

Thewlis, S. Grammar Dimensions Book 3, 2000,  Heinle & Heinle, Boston.

 

Larsen-Freeman, D.  Grammar 3D, 2000, Heinle & Heinle, Boston.

 

 

Recommended Resources:

 

Azar, B.  Fundamentals of English Grammar, 1992, Prentice Hall Regents, Upper Saddle River: N. J.

 

 

Other Resources or References:

 

Raimes, A.  Grammar Troublespots, 1998, Cambridge University Press.

 

Elbaum, S.  Grammar in Context Book 3, 1996, Heinle & Heinle, Boston.