COURSE OUTLINE AND OBJECTIVES

           The development of the language-related skills of learners with varied interests and levels of need and competence is best and most closely realized in the integration of components through thematic teaching. Concurrently, integrated and thematic teaching approach leads students to explore, "catch" and use the language in the process. Therefore, they spontaneously develop academic language proficiency and autonomy in coping with the demand and trend of a dynamic language. All these are deemed more motivating and closer to real-life situation.

 

     After undergoing in this online English Program, the learners shall developed the following competencies:

 

A. Listening

    1. Demonstrate competence in adjusting listening strategies (e.g. marginal, selective attentive, etc.) in ration to the main purpose of listening, one's familiarity with the level of difficulty of the text, using simple narrative and simple instructions.

           a. Use selective listening strategies to single out details.

           b. Supply details not caught.

 

A. Study Skills:

    1. Develop ability to adjust reading speed to purpose of reading and levelof difficulty of the text.

           a. Skim rapidly for major ideas using headings and illustrations.

           b. Scan for specific information.

           c. Adjust and vary reading speed-skim, scan and read intensively or extensively - based on purpose and type  of reading material: newspaper, magazine, journal, etc.

           d. Read intensively to follow written directions in the test.

    2. Demonstrate ability to interpret and if necessary reproduce in-inear verbal for graphics calling for literal       interpretation most commonly used in context.

    3. Demonstrate ability to locate and synthesize information essential to one's interpretation of the world around him. 

B. Comprehension

    1. Understand the content of written texts that include narrative, descriptive and sxplository prose instructions and other printed forms.

           a. Understand and identify the main idea (based on topic sentences, collocations, lexical chain, supporting details, etc.)

           b. Identify the author's purpose and his method of presenting and organizing information.

           c. Recall ideas or information explicitly stated information from implicit statements in material read.

           d. Extract salient points to summarize note.

           e. Recognize (analyze and synthesize) ideas or information.

           f. Point out the relationship of parts to the whole and give logical explanation.

           g. Cite evidences that support a general statement in a reading material.

           h. Organize information read into an outline.

           i. Predict and anticipate outcomes.

           j. Identify whether the statement is fact or opinion.

           k. Verbalize emotional response.

           l. React critically to what is read by judging relevance and worth of idea, soundness of the author's reasoning, the efectiveness of presentation, etc.

     2. Demonstrate ability to use or to activate real world knowledge with emphasis on direct experience to work on the meaning of the text. Use ideas and information explicitly stated in the material read, intuition and personal experience as the basis for conjecture and hypothesis.

     3. Develop ability to read for information, pleasure and appreciation.

C. Language

     1. Develop ability to read and improve one's command of the language.

            a. Identify word reference in reading texts for better understanding.

            b. Get the meaning of ambiguous structures and discourse.

     2. Develop strategies for coping with unknown words and ambiguous structures and discourse.

            a. Deduce the meaning of words through contextual clues and structural analysis and through the use of the dictionary.

            b. Use structural and contextual devices in deriving meaning from sentences in literary selections.

 

 A. General Skills:

     1. Demonstrate  thinking literacy skills essential for handling the communicative and linguistic demands in literature.

     2. Cite evidences to support a general statement.

     3. Make generalizations based on author's experience.

     4. Infer a character's from his appearance, words and actions.

     5. Deduce motive, attitudes and behavior of the characters.

     6. Anticipate events and outcomes from pictures and a series of details.

     7. React critically to what is read.

B. Substance or Content

     1. Understand the forms and functions of various literary types 

         Genre Specific:

             a. Give opinion and counsel through an informative essay.

             b. Discover the central thought, tone, voice, imagery and style communicated through a descriptive essay.

             c. Explain how different elements of poetry work together to create an effect or achieve a purpose.

             d. Illustrate or draw imagery presented by each stanze or poem.

             e. State the theme of a poem or short story.

             f.  Point out devices that distinguish poetic form from drama and drama from narration.

             g. Deduce causes and effects from events in the story.

      2. Develop ability to evaluate the literary craftmanship of the author.

             a. Single out poetic devices and the effect achieve by those devices.

             b. Pick out imagery create through metaphor and simile and appreciate the scope and variety.

             c. Explain the author's diction or choice of language such as the use of local color, jargons, etc.

             d. Explain the characterization in fiction.

             e. Explain symbols.

      3. Derive values from studying literature.

             a. Discover literature as a means of gaining vicarious experiences. Respond to a story by experiencing it fully.

             b. Develop ability to show keener sense of values of what  is worthwhile and what is not worthshile in literature.

             c. Assess one's potentialities through experience with characters in literature as they play their rolesin their own society.

             d. Discriminate between positive and negative values.

             e. Appreciate one's cultural heritage and one's identity. Distinguish feeling from opinions in assessing the Filipino character presented in literature.

             f. Deepen human understanding and human relationship.

 A. Practical Writing

      1. Demonstrate ability to choose the mode or rhetorical pattern for expressing one's thoughts, needs, opinions, feelings and attitudes.

             a. Write effective personal letters and business letter.

             b. Fill in forms needed for effective functioning in school such as library, enrolment/registration forms and information sheet.

             c. Write clear announcements, notices, etc.

B. Compostion Writing

      Rhetorical Patterns (including cohesion and coherence)

      1. Write logically connected and organized discourse.

      2. Organize ideas through an outline.

      3. Order ideas or sequence ideas appropriately in terms of: time order, spatial arrangement, and ascending or descending order of importance, size, etc.

      4. Pattern one's work after models of unity, coherence and emphasis in writing.

      5. Observe unity in one's writing through: topic sentence, support sentence, concluding sentences, nouns, verbs and adjectives reflecting one's mood or impression.