1. On what basis are students in the Language and Culture Center (LCC) placed in their levels?
Students are given three placement tests when they enter the program.

2. How are students evaluated for promotion or for exit from the program?
Students are given two tests and a teacher evaluation score at the end of the term.

The evaluation score ranges, on a 100-point proficiency scale, are listed below. (Detailed information about these tests is available at the LCC website www.lcc.uh.edu)

3. What are the learning outcomes for a student who successfully completes level 3 (59 weighted average or higher)?

READING OUTCOMES
• Read and understand simplified academic material.
• Read and understand simplified periodicals.
• Answer comprehension questions.
• Identify topic and main idea.
• Identify supporting details
• Distinguish facts from opinions.
• Understand simple charts, graphs, and diagrams.
• Make inferences.
• Preview and predict content.
• Scan a passage for specific information.
• Skim a passage for the main idea.
• Reproduce text in a graphic organizer, timeline, or outline.
• Recognize word forms: noun, verb, adjective, and adverb
• Identify synonyms and antonyms.
• Use structural analysis to identify root words, prefixes, and suffixes.
• Use context clues to guess meanings of words.
• Use a monolingual English picture dictionary.
• Follow simple written directions.

WRITING OUTCOMES
• Write simple, compound, and complex sentences.
• Write a paragraph with: a topic sentence containing a controlling idea, supporting details, and a conclusion.
• Write an essay of 3 or more paragraphs, with an introduction, body, and conclusion.
• Use descriptive, narrative, comparison/contrast, and other rhetorical modes.
• Use transitions.
• Proofread for errors in grammar, spelling, punctuation (including comma splices, run-ons, fragments, and deletions), and capitalization.
• Avoid plagiarism.

LISTENING OUTCOMES
• Understand diverse number forms such as ordinal and cardinal.
• Understand reductions, stressed words.
• Follow instructions given at a normal rate of speed.
• Understand questions.
• Identify the main idea of a listening passage
• Identify details of a listening passage.
• Listen and make an outline or graphic organizer of a short passage.
• Differentiate between formal and informal English.
• Understand meaning through tone of voice.

SPEAKING OUTCOMES
• Produce contractions, third person singular, and past tense endings.
• Use stress and intonation correctly.
• Give information and express opinions.
• Ask relevant questions and give appropriate answers.
• Initiate and sustain a conversation on a given topic.
• Give a simple individual, pair or group presentation.
• Talk about familiar topics.
• Demonstrate some familiarity with spoken academic vocabulary.
• Rephrase statements.
• Speak using simple and compound sentences, some complex sentences, mostly accurate intermediate grammar structures and simple word forms

4. What grammar structures are taught in level 3?

GRAMMAR STRUCTURES
• regular and irregular verbs
• subject-verb agreement
• present and past tenses: simple and continuous
• present perfect and present perfect continuous
• future time verb forms
• simple modals
• gerunds initiative
• indicative, imperative mood
• sentence formation: subject-verb-object
• question formation: yes/no and wh-questions
• real conditionals
• clauses-adjective/adverb
• nouns – count and non-count
• pronouns
• adjectives
• comparisons: adjectives/adverbs
• adverbs
• articles
• prepositions
• coordinating conjunction