English Language Development Noncredit

Welcome to ELDN!

Discover increased opportunities and enhanced personal and professional satisfaction through Allan Hancock College Community Education's English Language Development Noncredit program!

Choose between Basic and Intermediate Noncredit ELD certificates to refine your language skills, including listening, speaking, reading, and writing, and improving communication in real-life situations.

Our skilled and passionate instructors are here to help you unlock your potential and reach your academic, personal, and professional goals!

ELD/ELDN Self-Guided Placement Tool

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Location                                     Hours                                                  Contact

Community Education                          Monday-Thursday, 8 a.m. to 7:30 p.m.        Andria Perdue-Keiser
Santa Maria Campus, Bldg S               Friday, 8 a.m. to 7 p.m.                                  Associate Professor
1-805-922-6966 ext. 3209                                                                                             ELDN Coordinator

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Fall 2024 ELDN Courses

ELDN 7400 - Spanish Literacy 1

• This is a low-beginning literacy course that develops Spanish literacy skills. Students learn to recognize and produce letter sounds, and read and write common vocabulary words and basic sentences. English sight words are introduced. This class emphasizes culturally appropriate curriculum.

ELDN 7410 - Spanish Literacy 2

• This is a low-beginning literacy course that develops Spanish literacy skills. Students learn to recognize and produce letter sounds, and read and write common vocabulary words and basic sentences. English literacy skills are gradually introduced. This class emphasizes culturally appropriate curriculum.

ELDN 7420 - Newcomer

• This course is intended for students with limited-to-no academic background. Students begin to develop listening, speaking, reading, and writing abilities for life, academic, and career skills.

ELDN 7430 - Low Beginning

• Students develop listening, speaking, reading, and writing abilities for life, academic, and career skills. This is the beginning ELD course for students who want to learn English.

ELDN 7440 - high beginning

• Students develop listening, speaking, reading, and writing abilities for life, academic, and career skills. This course is intended for students who have earned an SP grade in the Low Beginning course or who have taken the self-guided placement test.

ELDN 7450 - Beginning conversation

• Build your confidence in speaking English! Practice the conversational skills needed in real-life situations and daily tasks. This course focuses on communication, strategies to improve pronunciation, and grammar in context. This course is appropriate for Low Beginning (ELDN 7430) and High Beginning (ELDN 7440) students.

ELDN 7460 - Low intermediate

• Students develop listening, speaking, reading, and writing abilities for life, academic, and career skills. This course is intended for students who have earned an SP grade in the High Beginning course or who have taken the self-guided placement test.

ELDN 7470 - high intermediate

• Students develop high-intermediate listening, speaking, reading, and writing abilities for life, academic, and career skills. This course is intended for students who have earned an SP grade in the Low Intermediate course or who have taken the self-guided placement test.

ELDn 7480 - intermediate conversation

• Build your confidence in speaking English! Practice the conversational skills needed in real-life situations and daily tasks. This course focuses on communication, strategies to improve pronunciation, and grammar in context. This course is appropriate for Low Intermediate (ELDN 7460) and High Intermediate (ELDN 7470) students.

ELDN 7502 - low advanced grammar

• This course is designed to help students understand and use intermediate grammatical forms in reading, writing, and oral/aural contexts. This course requires one lab hour per week. Student lab work includes, but is not limited to the following: completion of computer-assisted activities as well as assigned grammar, vocabulary, reading, writing, and listening exercises. This is a mirrored course; it is offered at the same time and place as the credit course. Noncredit and credit students take the class together with one instructor and complete the same coursework. No credit is given for this course.

ELDn 7511 - high intermediate conversation

• This course prepares students to understand and speak English at the high intermediate level. In this course, students develop communicative competence by engaging in a variety of listening and speaking activities. Students will participate in interviews, small group discussions, and presentations. This is a mirrored course; it is offered at the same time and place as the credit course. Noncredit and credit students take the class together with one instructor and complete the same coursework. No credit is given for this course.

Eldn 7521 - high intermediate reading

• This course is designed to help high intermediate ESL students develop academic reading skills. Emphasis is on developing reading comprehension, vocabulary, and fluency. Students will read a variety of text types (e.g., short stories, newspaper articles, novels, and nonfiction pieces). This course requires one lab hour per week. Student lab work includes, but is not limited to, the following: completion of computer-assisted activities as well as assigned grammar, vocabulary, reading, writing, and listening exercises. Lecture: 4 hours per week. Lab: 1 hour per week. This is a mirrored course; it is offered at the same time and place as the credit course. Noncredit and credit students take the class together with one instructor and complete the same coursework. No credit is given for this course.

ELDN 7522 - Low advanced reading

• This course is designed to help low advanced ESL students develop academic reading skills. Emphasis is on developing reading comprehension, vocabulary, and fluency. Students will read a variety of text types (e.g., short stories, newspaper articles, novels, and nonfiction pieces). This course requires one lab hour per week. Student lab work includes, but is not limited to, the following: completion of computer-assisted activities as well as assigned grammar, vocabulary, reading, writing, and listening exercises. Lecture: 4 hours per week. Lab: 1 hour per week. This is a mirrored course; it is offered at the same time and place as the credit course. Noncredit and credit students take the class together with one instructor and complete the same coursework. No credit is given for this course.

ELDN 7523 - Advanced reading

• ELDN 7523 uses fiction and nonfiction texts to develop reading skills and strategies. The emphasis is on improving reading comprehension and efficiency and helping students become critical readers. This course is not open to students who are enrolled in or have received credit for ELD 523, ENGL 312 or READ 310. This is a mirrored course; it is offered at the same time and place as the credit course. Noncredit and credit students take the class together with one instructor and complete the same coursework. No credit is given for this course.

Eldn 7531 - high intermediate writing

• This course is designed to help high intermediate ESL students develop academic writing skills at the paragraph and short-essay level. Instruction is provided in the following areas: the writing process, sentence structure, vocabulary development, formatting, and mechanics. This course requires one lab hour per week. Student lab work includes, but is not limited to, the following: completion of computerassisted activities as well as assigned grammar, vocabulary, reading, writing, and listening exercises. Lecture: 4 hours per week. Lab: 1 hour per week. This is a mirrored course; it is offered at the same time and place as the credit course. Noncredit and credit students take the class together with one instructor and complete the same coursework. No credit is given for this course.

ELDN 7532 - low advanced writing

• This course is designed to help low advanced ESL students develop academic writing skills at the short essay level. Instruction is provided in the following areas: the writing process, sentence structure, vocabulary, formatting, and mechanics. This course requires one lab hour per week. Student lab work includes, but is not limited to, the following: completion of computer-assisted activities as well as assigned grammar, vocabulary, reading, writing, and listening exercises. Lecture: 4 hours per week. Lab: 1 hour per week. This is a mirrored course; it is offered at the same time and place as a credit course. Noncredit and credit students take the class together with one instructor and complete the same coursework. No credit is given for this course.

Eldn 7533 - Advanced writing

• Designed to help students critically analyze texts to use in support of a well-organized, thesis-based essay. Improvement in grammar, mechanics, sentence structure, word choice, and usage of outside sources with MLA formatting is also emphasized.

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Winter 2025 ELDN Courses

ELDN 7450 - Beginning conversation

• Build your confidence in speaking English! Practice the conversational skills needed in real-life situations and daily tasks. This course focuses on communication, strategies to improve pronunciation, and grammar in context. This course is appropriate for Low Beginning (ELDN 7430) and High Beginning (ELDN 7440) students.

ELDn 7480 - intermediate conversation

• Build your confidence in speaking English! Practice the conversational skills needed in real-life situations and daily tasks. This course focuses on communication, strategies to improve pronunciation, and grammar in context. This course is appropriate for Low Intermediate (ELDN 7460) and High Intermediate (ELDN 7470) students.

Spring 2025 ELDN Courses

ELDN 7400 - Spanish Literacy 1

• This is a low-beginning literacy course that develops Spanish literacy skills. Students learn to recognize and produce letter sounds, and read and write common vocabulary words and basic sentences. English sight words are introduced. This class emphasizes culturally appropriate curriculum.

ELDN 7410 - Spanish Literacy 2

• This is a low-beginning literacy course that develops Spanish literacy skills. Students learn to recognize and produce letter sounds, and read and write common vocabulary words and basic sentences. English literacy skills are gradually introduced. This class emphasizes culturally appropriate curriculum.

ELDN 7420 - Newcomer

• This course is intended for students with limited-to-no academic background. Students begin to develop listening, speaking, reading, and writing abilities for life, academic, and career skills.

ELDN 7430 - Low Beginning

• Students develop listening, speaking, reading, and writing abilities for life, academic, and career skills. This is the beginning ELD course for students who want to learn English.

 

ELDN 7440 - high beginning

• Students develop listening, speaking, reading, and writing abilities for life, academic, and career skills. This course is intended for students who have earned an SP grade in the Low Beginning course or who have taken the self-guided placement test.

ELDN 7450 - Beginning conversation

• Build your confidence in speaking English! Practice the conversational skills needed in real-life situations and daily tasks. This course focuses on communication, strategies to improve pronunciation, and grammar in context. This course is appropriate for Low Beginning (ELDN 7430) and High Beginning (ELDN 7440) students.

ELDN 7460 - Low intermediate

• Students develop listening, speaking, reading, and writing abilities for life, academic, and career skills. This course is intended for students who have earned an SP grade in the High Beginning course or who have taken the self-guided placement test.

ELDN 7470 - high intermediate

• Students develop high-intermediate listening, speaking, reading, and writing abilities for life, academic, and career skills. This course is intended for students who have earned an SP grade in the Low Intermediate course or who have taken the self-guided placement test.

ELDn 7480 - intermediate conversation

• Build your confidence in speaking English! Practice the conversational skills needed in real-life situations and daily tasks. This course focuses on communication, strategies to improve pronunciation, and grammar in context. This course is appropriate for Low Intermediate (ELDN 7460) and High Intermediate (ELDN 7470) students.

 

Eldn 7521 - high intermediate reading

• This course is designed to help high intermediate ESL students develop academic reading skills. Emphasis is on developing reading comprehension, vocabulary, and fluency. Students will read a variety of text types (e.g., short stories, newspaper articles, novels, and nonfiction pieces). This course requires one lab hour per week. Student lab work includes, but is not limited to, the following: completion of computer-assisted activities as well as assigned grammar, vocabulary, reading, writing, and listening exercises. Lecture: 4 hours per week. Lab: 1 hour per week. This is a mirrored course; it is offered at the same time and place as the credit course. Noncredit and credit students take the class together with one instructor and complete the same coursework. No credit is given for this course.

ELDN 7522 - Low advanced reading

• This course is designed to help low advanced ESL students develop academic reading skills. Emphasis is on developing reading comprehension, vocabulary, and fluency. Students will read a variety of text types (e.g., short stories, newspaper articles, novels, and nonfiction pieces). This course requires one lab hour per week. Student lab work includes, but is not limited to, the following: completion of computer-assisted activities as well as assigned grammar, vocabulary, reading, writing, and listening exercises. Lecture: 4 hours per week. Lab: 1 hour per week. This is a mirrored course; it is offered at the same time and place as the credit course. Noncredit and credit students take the class together with one instructor and complete the same coursework. No credit is given for this course.

ELDN 7523 - Advanced reading

• ELDN 7523 uses fiction and nonfiction texts to develop reading skills and strategies. The emphasis is on improving reading comprehension and efficiency and helping students become critical readers. This course is not open to students who are enrolled in or have received credit for ELD 523, ENGL 312 or READ 310. This is a mirrored course; it is offered at the same time and place as the credit course. Noncredit and credit students take the class together with one instructor and complete the same coursework. No credit is given for this course.

Eldn 7531 - high intermediate writing

• This course is designed to help high intermediate ESL students develop academic writing skills at the paragraph and short-essay level. Instruction is provided in the following areas: the writing process, sentence structure, vocabulary development, formatting, and mechanics. This course requires one lab hour per week. Student lab work includes, but is not limited to, the following: completion of computerassisted activities as well as assigned grammar, vocabulary, reading, writing, and listening exercises. Lecture: 4 hours per week. Lab: 1 hour per week. This is a mirrored course; it is offered at the same time and place as the credit course. Noncredit and credit students take the class together with one instructor and complete the same coursework. No credit is given for this course.

ELDN 7532 - low advanced writing

• This course is designed to help low advanced ESL students develop academic writing skills at the short essay level. Instruction is provided in the following areas: the writing process, sentence structure, vocabulary, formatting, and mechanics. This course requires one lab hour per week. Student lab work includes, but is not limited to, the following: completion of computer-assisted activities as well as assigned grammar, vocabulary, reading, writing, and listening exercises. Lecture: 4 hours per week. Lab: 1 hour per week. This is a mirrored course; it is offered at the same time and place as a credit course. Noncredit and credit students take the class together with one instructor and complete the same coursework. No credit is given for this course.

Eldn 7533 - Advanced writing

• Designed to help students critically analyze texts to use in support of a well-organized, thesis-based essay. Improvement in grammar, mechanics, sentence structure, word choice, and usage of outside sources with MLA formatting is also emphasized.

Certificate of Competency

The Noncredit English Language Development Certificates are designed for non-native English-speaking students who want to read, write, listen, and speak in English at the beginning and intermediate levels. 

Basic English Language Development Certificate

Basic ELD certificate requirements:

• ELDN 7440 - High Beginning

• ELDN 7450 - Beginning Conversation

• One Elective

  • Choose a course from the Beginning ELDN list in addition to the required.

Intermediate English Language Development Certificate

Intermediate ELD Certificate Requirements:

• ELDN 7470 - High Intermediate

• ELDN 7480 - Intermediate Conversation

• One Elective

  • Choose a course from the Intermediate ELDN list in addition to the required.

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