Intensive Program Courses
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Integrated English Skills I
Integrated English Skills II
Integrated English Skills III
The primary emphasis of an Integrated English Skills class is on
listening and speaking skills, though reading, writing, and grammar are
also emphasized. Students participate in small and large group
discussions, give presentations, and conduct interviews among a variety of
other activities.
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Grammar I
Grammar II
Grammar III
The Grammar classes focus on practicing a variety of grammatical
structures such as verb tenses and modals, question word order, and
adjective clauses in both spoken and written contexts. Students do
individual and small group activities in addition to playing games and
writing short compositions.
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Reading and Writing I
Reading and Writing II
Reading and Writing III
The Reading and Writing classes focus on developing analytical reading
and writing skills. Students will read texts and then respond both
informally and formally in writing. Integrating reading and writing will
help the students to acquire new vocabulary and grammatical structures.
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This Advanced Grammar course focuses on advanced structures such as
complex verb tenses and modals, noun and adjective clauses, and passives.
Attention is given to form and meaning, with considerable emphasis placed
on use. The goal is to reduce student error in the context of the
student’s oral or written work.
This course focuses on reading academic texts. Students practice
guessing meaning in context; understanding sentence structures, main
ideas, and details; skimming; and scanning. In addition to reading,
students are required to respond to readings in an oral or written format
and often lead group discussions on reading selections of their choice.
This course focuses on writing academic texts. Students review
paragraph structure and move quickly to practicing different types of
essay structures. By the end of the course, students will be integrating
source material into their texts.
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Academic Speaking and Listening
The Speaking and Listening course focuses on challenging students with speaking
and listening
tasks like those they will encounter in their academic classes.
Students give oral presentations, group presentations, and participate in
group discussions. Some attention is given to pronunciation as well.
Students listen to a variety of materials and develop note-taking skills.
Occasionally, guest lecturers provide authentic, real-time
listening opportunities.
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Oral Proficiency for Graduate Students
The Oral Proficiency for Graduate Students course focuses on
challenging students with speaking tasks that mirror those they will
encounter in their graduate-level academic classes. Students give oral
presentations, group presentations, and participate in group discussions.
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Writing Seminar for Graduate Students
This course focuses on writing graduate-level academic texts. Students
review essay structure with source integration and practice different
types of academic writing tasks such as data commentary, summary and
critique, and research paper writing.
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