Oct 23, 2026  
Palo Verde College 2026-2027 Catalog 
    
Palo Verde College 2026-2027 Catalog

ABE 051 - Integrated ESL Skills level I


Description: This is a beginning ESL course designed for the beginning or false beginning ESL student. The course will cover grammar and simple sentence writing. The course emphasizes improving listening comprehension as well as increasing fluency and accuracy in spoken English. This course is repeatable and is ungraded.

Transferable
Not transferable

General Education:
Not approved for General Education

Student Learning Outcomes:
  1. Demonstrate the ability to classify the following parts of speech: nouns, verbs, pronouns, adjectives, adverbs of frequency, and prepositions.
  2. Demonstrate the ability to orally express statements and questions using a variety of nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs, with a vocabulary of 25 words.
  3. Write sentences demonstrating competency in nouns, verbs and verb tenses, adjectives, adverbs, prepositions, and conjunctions, with correct capitalization and ending punctuation (period, question mark, and exclamation point).


Total Course In-Class (Contact) Hours: 108
Course Duration (Weeks): 18
Weekly Student Hours (In-Class) Lecture Hours: 6