ECI290 — Academic English Immersive Experience **
ECI 290 - Academic English Immersive Experience ** ECI 290 - Academic English Immersive Experience ** 1-4 Credit(s) This course will require both classroom instruction and an immersive experience for advanced ESL, World English, or native speaker students to demonstrate and/or model advanced competency with spoken and written aspects of the English language, including syntax, phonetics, idioms, and structure. In addition, the course will require written and oral reflection, through journals and discussions, on content learned, and the professor must verify the students’ attendance and participation in the experiences where the students are placed. This English-intensive experience, a quasi-practicum, could include volunteer opportunities/exchanges here on campus, in the community, or even abroad where World English is practiced extensively. As native speakers or multilingual speakers, in this course they will consciously observe and journal about aspects of the English language on which they may be questioned, including idioms, conversational patterns, intonation, and vocabulary Furthermore, the course will require them to examine other cultures, gaining cultural competence, as demonstrated in at least one case study analysis. Non-native speakers, who may require more interaction with the professor, must demonstrate the vocabulary they have learned through this experience. Students in this course may be eligible to earn extra certifications in medical interpretation , communi