RUSS 441 - Advanced Composition and Grammar

• Demonstrate strong communicative competence in predictable everyday situations and moderate communicative competence in spontaneous, unscripted situations
• Use high-intermediate level of vocabulary and gramma r appropriately, orally and in writing, most of the time
• Identify and recognize salient features of the information presented in sentence-length speech, in an uninterrupted dialogue or monologue, in authentic personal and social contexts
• Demonstrate complete understanding of simple authentic texts and moderate understanding of complex authentic texts
• Use intermediate to advanced stylistic and rhetorical devices in writing most of the time
• Demonstrate a strong ability to write in different time frames with some control of the aspect
• Demonstrate an ability to write in a variety of formats (re- telling, descriptive and analytical compositions, argument, summary and review)
• Demonstrate a moderate ability to identify salient features in complex oral and written texts