This initial ELD course provides students who have little or no previous background in English with the receptive and expressive language skills necessary to meet their immediate communication needs. This course builds a beginning foundation of early English language proficiency in the areas of listening, speaking, reading and writing through an integrated literature. Students acquire an understanding of the similarities and differences between the ethics, values, customs, beliefs of the native language setting of their home and country of birth with the new second language country and school environment. It may be repeated for credit by those students who do not meet minimum proficiency or as recommended by the teacher.