Nov 22, 2024
OHIO University Undergraduate Catalog 2024-25

OPIE D101 - Foundations in English Listening/Speaking


This course is one component of full-time study of English as a second language for students at the beginning level whose ultimate aim is academic study. Four hours of classroom instruction are designed to provide students with instruction and practice in basic listening and speaking for everyday communication.

Requisites: Course is developmental PERMISSION REQUIRED Paper TOEFL: below 349 IBT: below 20 Placement Test: below 45 Composition Exam: 2- 10
Credit Hours: 4
Repeat/Retake Information: May be repeated for a maximum of 24.0 hours.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 4.0 lecture
Grades: Eligible Grades: ,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I
Learning Outcomes:
  • Given a pre-listening activity, student can discern specific information needed to respond to follow-up questions or tasks.
  • Student asks someone to repeat what s/he has said, to speak more slowly, or to write something down to facilitate comprehension.
  • Student associates appropriate meaning with grammatical features (tense, number) and with basic stress and intonation patterns. Student comprehends short conversations about familiar topics.
  • Student can produce in isolated words and carefully spoken sentences: phonemes, inflectional markers for tense and number, question forms, basic stress, and intonation patterns that are usually comprehensible to the general public.
  • Student recognizes in isolated words and carefully spoken sentences: phonemes, inflectional markers for tense and number, question forms, basic stress, and intonation patterns.
  • Student uses common grammatical forms (including tense, number, question forms) although with frequent errors.


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