Specialty Applied Courses
FEES: $10.00/15,000 LL Per Hour All Courses
Listening & Speaking Beginning: An introductory course designed to enhance the speaking and listening skills. Emphasis is on pronunciation, stress, rhythm, and intonation patterns of American English. Oral communication, listening comprehension, and vocabulary development are stressed. Students build their skills through instruction and intensive practice. Intermediate: Emphasizes the development and use of language skills necessary for understanding others and expressing oneself orally in American English in academic, professional, and social contexts. The course includes vocabulary development, practice with appropriate language structures, and discussion of important aspects of cross-cultural communication. Advanced: A course in advanced speaking and listening skills in English, with emphasis on presenting, comprehending, and responding to oral argument and other types of academic discourse. Within this framework, the course expands students' vocabulary in a variety of academic and professional fields and enhances note-taking skills. |
FEES: $10.00/15,000 LL Per Hour All Courses
Reading & Writing Beginning: Students read a variety of short accessible texts, learn and practice explicit reading skills and practice a variety of simple writing tasks such as prompted writing, guided paragraphs, retells, and dictation. Students are introduced to basic parts of speech and sentence analysis and increase their vocabulary. They develop their phonemic awareness and basic sound-spelling correspondence; write letters legibly; demonstrate use of the basic properties of the sentence; alphabetize words; use basic grammar for questions, statements, and simple prompted paragraphs. Intermediate: Students are introduced to text analysis, basic sentence and paragraph structure and revision. Students write a variety of compositions such as book reports, autobiographies, summaries, and responses to readings. Students also work on grammar and vocabulary development with special emphasis on parts of speech and collocations. Students begin more intensive reading and writing. Longer and more complex texts are introduced and students begin focusing on planning and developing paragraphs, basic summarizing, and writing more sophisticated sentences. Students also work toward more written fluency through journal and response writing and greater accuracy through revision of formal paragraphs and editing. Advanced: Students begin to develop higher level reading, writing, discussion and critical thinking skills centered around a series of academic articles on contemporary issues and/or longer works of fiction or nonfiction. Writing focuses on practicing common academic rhetorical structures such as comparison/contrast, classification and cause/effect; these writings incorporate information from the articles students have read. Writing assignments include well-supported argumentative academic essays of varying lengths that synthesize and appropriately cite source information. The grammar component at this level is fully integrated with writing assignments, highlighting at-need grammar points and more sophisticated grammar structures. |