Expectations for this course include: Students can prepare for and present an argument incorporating information from multiple listening and reading sources in a 12-15 minute critical discussion with multiple participants in an intelligible and fluent way. Students can respond appropriately to spontaneous input from the teacher or other students in academic discussions. Students can extract key information from linguistically unadapted college level audio/visual materials on unfamiliar topics up to 12-15 minutes in length. Students can also synthesize the listening with other reading or listening texts they have been previously exposed to. Students can follow and respond appropriately to extended academic discussions with multiple participants and points of view. Students can do the above following clear, standard speech and with little need for support with repetition or clarification.