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bjbj\.\. Student Success Video: WELCOME TO ESL >>JEFF WILSON: HELLO MY NAME IS JEFF WILSON
I M ONE OF OUR IVC ESL PROFESSORS HERE AT IVC SO HELLO. WELCOME TO OUR ESL WEBSITE.
ON THIS VIDEO WE RE GONNA SHOW YOU A COUPLE DIFFERENT THINGS SUCH AS WHO SHOULD TAKE AN
ESL CLASS?, WHAT ESL CLASSES YOU SHOULD TAKE?, WHERE DO YOU SIGN UP FOR AN ESL CLASS? OR
HOW TO TAKE THE ESL ASSESSMENT TEST AND AT THE END OF THE VIDEO WE RE GONNA SHOW YOU
A COUPLE VIDEOS THAT SHOW SOME STUDENTS TALKING ABOUT THEIR OWN ESL EXPERIENCES HERE AT IVC.
SO TO BEGIN WITH, WHO SHOULD TAKE AN ESL CLASS? WELL, IF YOU RE A NON-NATIVE SPEAKER OF ENGLISH
AND YOU RE HAVING A LITTLE BIT OF TROUBLE IN WRITING, READING, GRAMMAR, SPEAKING OR
PRONUNCIATION, TAKING AN ESL CLASS MIGHT BE RIGHT FOR YOU. MAYBE YOU HAVE BEEN HERE JUST
FOR ONE MONTH AND YOU RE AN INTERNATIONAL STUDENT OR MAYBE YOU VE BEEN HERE THIRTY YEARS
OR MAYBE YOU VE BEEN HERE SINCE YOUR FIFTEEN AND YOU VE TAKEN SOME HIGH SCHOOL CLASS BUT
YOU STILL NEED TO WORK ON THAT ENGLISH. IVC ESL PROGRAM IS RIGHT FOR YOU. ALSO IT S FOR
PEOPLE THAT WANT TO GET THEIR AA DEGREE OR WANT TO TRANSFER TO A FOUR YEAR UNIVERSITY.
IT S FOR PEOPLE THAT WANT TO WORK ON THEIR ENGLISH IN GENERAL, WITH THEIR FAMILY, WITH
THEIR COMMUNITY, WITH PEOPLE AT THE STORE OR IT S FOR THOSE OF YOU THAT WANT HELP WITH
THEIR ENGLISH TO IMPROVE THEIR JOB SKILLS. SO MAYBE YOU RE LOOKING FOR A NEW JOB OR YOU
WANT TO BE PROMOTED AT YOUR OWN JOB THIS IS THE PLACE FOR YOU TO GO. OKAY NOW WHAT SHOULD
YOU DO NEXT? SO, I WANT TO TAKE A CLASS BUT I M NOT SURE WHAT CLASS I SHOULD TAKE, WHAT
SHOULD YOU DO? WELL THE FIRST THING YOU NEED TO DO IS TAKE OUR ESL PLACEMENT TEST OR IT
S CALLED, ASSESSMENT TEST. THAT WILL PLACE YOU IN THE BEGINNING, INTERMEDIATE OR ADVANCED
LEVELS AND GIVE YOU AN IDEA ON WHAT CLASSES YOU SHOULD TAKE. HOW DO I DO THAT? WELL LET
ME SHOW YOU, ACTUALLY WE RE GONNA LOOK AT TAI, ONE OF OUR ESL STUDENTS AND SHE S GONNA
SHOW YOU HOW TO TAKE THE ASSESSMENT TEST. LET S GO. [MUSIC] >>TAI: HI. I NEED TO TAKE
ASSESSMENT TEST. >>STAFF: OK, WE HAVE TWO KINDS OF TESTS, THE ESL TEST AND THE WRITING
AND MATH TEST. WHICH TEST DO YOU NEED TO TAKE? >>TAI: ESL TEST >>STAFF: ESL TEST, OKAY SO
THE ESL TEST.. WE DO IT..YOU CAN JUST WALK IN TO ANY OF THE TIMES THAT WE OFFER IT. THE
SCHEDULES RIGHT HERE, YOU CAN CHOOSE ANY OF THOSE DATES, YOU DON T NEED AN APPOINTMENT,
JUST BE ABOUT FIVE MINUTES EARLY. BRING A PHOTO ID AND YOUR STUDENT ID NUMBER. >>TAI:
I SEE >>STAFF: AND IT S GONNA TAKE TWO, TWO AND A HALF HOURS TO FINISH THAT TEST. AFTER
TESTING YOU CAN TAKE THIS. THIS TELLS YOU HOW TO FIND YOUR TEST RESULTS. IT TAKES US
A FEW DAYS TO SCORE IT BUT A FEW DAYS AFTER YOU TEST YOU CAN FOLLOW THESE INSTRUCTIONS
AND FIND YOUR TEST RESULTS AND THE RESULTS WILL HELP YOU CHOOSE WHAT CLASS IS RIGHT FOR
YOU. ON THE OTHER SIDE IF YOU GO TO THIS WEBSITE YOU CAN MAKE AN APPOINTMENT TO DO ORIENTATION
WITH A COUNSELOR AND WHEN YOU GO TO ORIENTATION A COUNSELOR WILL GO OVER YOUR TEST RESULTS
AND HELP YOU CHOOSE CLASSES. IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS ABOUT ESL CLASSES SPECIFICALLY YOU
CAN GO TO THE ESL WEBSITE AND E-MAIL ONE OF THE FULL TIME INSTRUCTORS THERE. >>TAI: OH
I SEE, THANK YOU. [MUSIC] >>JEFF WILSON: HI MY NAME IS JEFF WILSON AND I M AN IVC ESL
INSTRUCTOR SO WELCOME. IN THIS SHORT PRESENTATION I M GONNA TALK ABOUT WHAT CLASSES YOU SHOULD
TAKE. THE FIRST THING YOU SHOULD DO IS TAKE THE ESL ASSESSMENT TEST. AFTER YOU TAKE THE
TEST YOU LL FIND OUT WHAT LEVEL YOU RE IN AND THEN ONCE YOU KNOW WHAT LEVEL YOU RE IN
YOU CAN TAKE THE APPROPRIATE CLASS. ALRIGHT, LET S TAKE A LOOK AT THE PRESENTATION. THIS
IS OUR ORGANIZATIONAL CHART AND AS YOU CAN SEE IT S SPLIT INTO THREE DIFFERENT CATEGORIES.
OUR FIRST LEVEL IS OUR BEGINNING LEVEL FOR BEGINNING LEARNERS. AND THEN WE HAVE INTERMEDIATE
LEVEL FOR OUR INTERMEDIATE LEARNERS. AND FINALLY WE HAVE OUR ADVANCED LEVEL FOR OUR ADVANCED
LEVEL LEARNERS. IN THE MIDDLE OF OUR CHART YOU CAN SEE THREE BOXES. IN THESE BOXES WE
HAVE OUR CORE CLASSES. OUR CORE CLASSES ARE OUR MAIN CLASSES. AND THESE ARE THE CLASSES
THAT YOU NEED TO TAKE IN SEQUENCE. SO YOU NEED TO TAKE BEGINNING, INTERMEDIATE AND THEN
ADVANCED DEPENDING ON YOUR LEVEL. FOR EXAMPLE, LET S SAY YOU RE PLACED INTO ESL 361 WHICH
IS OUR HIGH INTERMEDIATE COURSE. THIS IS A FIVE UNIT COURSE WHICH FOCUSES ON MULTI-SKILLS
SUCH AS GRAMMAR, READING, WRITING, PRONUNCIATION, CONVERSATION AND VOCABULARY. ONCE YOU PASS
THIS SEQUENCE YOU CAN GO UP THE LADDER TO ESL 380 WHICH IS OUR ACADEMIC WRITING PARAGRAPHS
CLASS. ONCE YOU FINISH THIS SEQUENCE YOU CAN MOVE UP TO ESL 81A WHICH IS OUR ACADEMIC WRITING
2 CLASS OR ACADEMIC ESSAY CLASS. IN THIS CLASS YOU LEARN HOW TO WRITE THE ACADEMIC ESSAY
AND YOU LEARN HOW TO IMPROVE YOUR WRITING AND YOUR READING SKILLS TO HELP YOU IN YOUR
FUTURE COLLEGE CLASSES OR IN YOUR JOB. OR PERHAPS IN THE COMMUNITY AT LARGE. ONCE YOU
FINISH THIS CLASS, IF YOU SO CHOOSE, YOU MAY GO OUT OF THE ESL PROGRAM AND TAKE WRITING
201 WHICH IS IN OUR ENGLISH DEPARTMENT. WRITING 201 IS THE NATIVE SPEAKER WRITING COURSE ONE
LEVEL BELOW WRITING 1 WHICH IS OUR 4-YEAR TRANSFER COURSE FOR WRITING. SO ONCE YOU FINISH
OUR ESL SEQUENCE YOU CAN GO OUT OF IT INTO THE WRITING PROGRAM AND SUCCEED IN COLLEGE
AFTER THAT. OKAY. THOSE ARE OUR CORE CLASSES. WE ALSO HAVE SKILLS COURSES WHICH HELPS YOU
DEVELOP SKILLS IN A PARTICULAR SUBJECT. AS YOU CAN SEE ON THE LEFT SIDE OF OUR PRESENTATION
AND THE RIGHT SIDE THESE LISTS ARE SKILLS COURSES. LET S SAY FOR EXAMPLE YOU WANT TO
LEARN SOME AMERICAN IDIOMS. YOU CAN TAKE OUR ESL 364 CLASS WHICH FOCUSES ON IDIOMS AND
SLANG AND YOU CAN LEARN SUCH PHRASES SUCH AS IT S RAINING CATS AND DOGS. OR LET S SAY
YOU DON T WANT TO LEARN IDIOMS, YOU WANT TO WORK ON YOUR PRONUNCIATION, YOU CAN TAKE PRONUNCIATION
AND CONVERSATION CLASSES AT OUR ADVANCED LEVELS WHICH I AM SHOWING YOU HERE OR AT OUR INTERMEDIATE
OR BEGINNING LEVELS. OR YOU CAN PERHAPS WORK ON VOCABULARY OR YOU CAN WORK ON READING.
FOR EXAMPLE I AM SHOWING YOU ESL 384 OUR ADVANCED VOCABULARY AND READING SKILLS CLASS AND ESL
385 WHICH IS OUR ACADEMIC READING SKILLS CLASS. SO, WE HAVE A LOT OF CLASSES TO OFFER YOU
IN BOTH CORE AND SKILLS. ONE LAST THING I WANT TO TALK ABOUT, YOU NOTICE THAT WE HAVE
AND AFTER EVERY ONE OF OUR CLASSES. FOR EXAMPLE WE HAVE ESL 360 HERE, WHAT IS THE ?, WHAT
IS THE ? WELL THE IS THE FIRST SEMESTER OF THE COURSE. SO THE FIRST TIME YOU SIGN UP
FOR A CLASS YOU RE GONNA SIGN UP FOR THE SECTION. THE CLASS SECTION IS YOUR SECOND SEMESTER
OR THE SECOND PART OF THE SEQUENCE. YOU RE GONNA DO THAT AFTER YOU TAKE THE CLASS. FINALLY
THE CLASS SECTION, THAT S OPTIONAL, THAT S NON-CREDIT, THAT IS THE THIRD SEMESTER AND
THAT S A GREAT OPPORTUNITY FOR YOU TO TAKE TO REVIEW OR TO WORK ON NEW SORTA FORMS BEFORE
YOU MOVE ON TO THE NEXT LEVEL. OKAY, SO, TO RECAP, YOU CAN GO TO OUR WEBSITE HERE, HYPERLINK
"http://www.ivc.edu/esl" WWW.IVC.EDU/ESL TO PRINT OUT THIS CHART. ONCE YOU GET THE CHART
YOU CAN TAKE IT TO AN ESL INSTRUCTOR OR AN IVC COUNSELOR TO GO INTO MORE DETAIL WITH
IT. ALSO BE SURE TO CHECK OUT OUR WEBSITE TO REVIEW SOME STUDENT TESTIMONIALS AND TO
CHECK OUT THE VIDEO ON HOW TO TAKE THE ESL ASSESSMENT TEST. OKAY WELL THAT S IT FOR NOW
AND I HOPE TO SEE YOU IN CLASS SOON. [VIDEO] >>MIN LI: HI EVERYBODY MY NAME IS MIN LI.
I AM ORIGINALLY FROM CHINA. I MOVE HERE IN 2009 WITH MY FAMILY. IN THE FIRST SEMESTER
I TOOK GEOLOGY AND A HUMANITY CLASS BUT AFTER THAT I FOUND OUT, OH MAYBE THAT S NOT FOR
ME YET BECAUSE I M NOT REALLY READY FOR ACADEMIC COLLEGE CLASSES. SO IN THE SECOND SEMESTER
I TOOK, I DECIDED TO TAKE SOME ESL CLASSES. I TOOK ESL 81 WHICH IS WRITING AND THE VOCABULARY
CLASSES. AND THOSE TWO CLASSES REALLY HELPED ME OUT WITH MY ACADEMIC WRITING. SO IN MY
FOLLOWING WRITING 201 CLASS I FEEL VERY CONFIDENT WITH MY WRITING AND I GOT A PLUS AND RIGHT
NOW I M TALKING WRITING 1 CLASS AND I FEEL VERY COMFORTABLE WITH MY PROFESSOR AND ALL
MY CLASSMATES. I M PRETTY SURE I CAN GET ANOTHER IN THIS SEMESTER AGAIN, THAT S A LESSON I
LEARN FROM ESL CLASSES. LIKE YOU GUYS MAY BE THINKING, OH NOW I DON T WANT TO TAKE ESL
CLASS, IT S TOO SLOW FOR ME TO TRANSFER TO UNIVERSITY BUT FOR MY EXPERIENCE THAT S THE
RIGHT THING YOU HAVE TO DO BECAUSE MAYBE YOU HAVE TO, YOU HAVE TO GO BACK TO ESL AND GET
READY FOR REAL ACADEMIC COURSES. AND I TOOK ESL ADVANTAGE COURSES BUT THEY ALSO HAVE BEGINNING
LEVEL, INTERMEDIATE LEVEL. LIKE MY, EVEN IN PRONUNCIATION AND CONVERSATION, LIKE MY MOM,
AND SHE DIDN T KNOW ANY ENGLISH AT ALL WHEN WE FIRST CAME HERE AND AFTER A YEAR TAKING
ESL CLASSES, RIGHT NOW SHE CAN START TALKING AND MAKE FRIENDS, ALL OF THAT. SO SHE IS REALLY
ENJOYING HER AMERICAN LIFE RIGHT NOW AND WE ARE HAPPY WITH THAT. AND JOIN US, TAKE THE
ESL CLASSES. [VIDEO] >>DORSA: HI MY NAME IS DORSA SHIRAZI. >>ROXANA: HI I M ROXANA SHIRAZI.
>>DORSA: WE ARE SISTERS. WE ARE IN INTERMEDIATE LEVEL. WE HAVE TAKEN A LOT OF ESL CLASSES.
>>ROXANA: WE ARE IN ESL 361. IT HELPS US TO FIND A LOT OF FRIENDS IN DIFFERENT CULTURE
AND DIFFERENT AGE AND ALL AROUND THE WORLD. >>DORSA: IT WILL BE HELPFUL IN OUR FUTURE
CLASSES AND ALSO THE CLASSES HELP US WITH CONVERSATION. FOR EXAMPLE WE HAD A SCHOLARSHIP
INTERVIEW AND WE DID WELL. >>ROXANA: AND CONVERSATION CLASSES HELP US TO BE A MATH TUTOR AND NOW
WE ARE HELPING SOME STUDENTS THAT WANT TO IMPROVE THEIR MATH SKILLS. >>DORSA: WE MAKE
A LOT OF MISTAKE BUT WE KEEP TRYING. >>ROXANA: I RECOMMEND TAKING ESL CLASSES. >>DORSA: WE
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