ELA 83 - English for Health Careers: Speaking, Listening, & Pronunciation

5.0 Credits
An intermediate to advanced ELA course to prepare students for healthcare careers. This course focuses on speaking, listening, and pronunciation in healthcare to support students in various medical careers and in the Allied Health pathway at Edmonds College.This class is aligned with the Career and College Readiness Standards (CCRS), as outlined in the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA) of 2016.
Prerequisite By advisor placement or teacher recommendation for students in ELA levels 40 - 60 who are interested in, or currently employedin a healthcare field.
Course-level Learning Objectives (CLOs)
Upon successful completion of this class, students will be able to:

Demonstrate accuracy, fluency, and intonation when using medical vocabulary and information.
Evaluate and respond to questions related to patient care.
Evaluate and apply individual sounds (vowels and consonants) as well as syllable and sentence stress, rhythm, intonation patterns, and compensatory strategies.
Demonstrate the development ofdiscriminative listening skills and the ability to decode auditory and visual stimuli.
Use paraphrasing and clarifying to demonstrate listening to a patient’s narrative.

Course Typically Offered
SUM, WTR