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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
Students focus on four intermediate English skills: reading, writing, speaking and listening, and grammar. Primary focus stresses the skills most important at an intermediate level: vocabulary building, correct grammatical structures for communicative language production, and participation in common, everyday communications, questions and answers, and expressing opinions.
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6.00 Credits
Students enrolled in more than six credits in any semester in the IEP are required to take two language enhancement courses, meeting 1- 2 hours/weekly. This clinic focuses on breaking bad language use habits and enhancing the automaticity of correct English through extensive speaking, error correction and improvement strategies geared to specific student needs.
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6.00 Credits
(Language Enhancement) Students enrolled in more than six credits in any semester in the IEP are required to take two language enhancement courses, meeting 1- 2 hours/weekly. This clinic focuses on enhancing the automaticity of correct English and vocabulary development through extensive reading and discussion. Students will both read and listen to MSSU faculty discuss readings that were important to them. A primary goal of this workshop is to encourage reading for enjoyment.
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3.00 Credits
Students focus on advanced grammar structures in English at the sentence and paragraph level, including: modals, semi-modals and similar constructions; conditionals and causatives; noun, adverb and relative clauses; gerund, infinitive and participial phrases; prepositions; articles and active/passive voice structure and use. Highly complex sentence construction and paragraph organization are highlighted as well as choice of grammatical structure to communicate specific intentions. ESL 121 is open only to students on international exchange for whom the course can carry transfer credit to their home programs; all other students register for ESL 081.
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3.00 Credits
Students focus on advanced speaking and listening skills appropriate to American higher educational settings, including language production and understanding. The course emphasizes academic lecture discourse and note taking skills; discussion leadership and participation styles; researching, analyzing and expressing opinions on a variety of academic topics. ESL 122 is open only to students on international exchange for whom the course can carry transfer credit to their home programs; all other students register for ESL 082. Both courses require a placement test or approval of the IEP director.
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3.00 Credits
Students focus on reading skills necessary for university academic work, stressing reading strategies and vocabulary development. Primary focuses are understanding difficult texts and vocabularies, increasing reading speed and encouragement of recreational reading in English. Topics include essay and academic texts; careful reading, skimming and scanning skills, and summarizing. ESL 123 is open only to students on international exchange for whom the course can carry transfer credit to their home programs; all other students register for ESL 083. Both courses require a placement test or permission of the IEP director.
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3.00 Credits
This course is designed to help the ESL learner master English syntax at the essay and formal paper level, with introduction to basic citation form. Emphasis is on academic discourse styles in development of the essay and other types of classroom written work. Topics include development of a thesis through essay organization and writing clearly under the pressure of time. ESL 124 is open only to students on international exchange for whom the course can carry transfer credit to their home programs; all other students register for ESL 084. Both courses require a placement test or permission of the IEP director.
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3.00 Credits
This is a multi-skills course which focuses on student language needs for the American university classroom. While the topic under study will change from semester to semester, the primary focus on multiple language skills adequate for university work remains the same. Students will explore an academic topic through extensive reading, writing and research, class discussion, lecture note taking, and examinations at a level expected of first year students. Students will not only practice skills learned from earlier classes, they will learn strategies to deal with the volume of work required in university classes. ESL 125 is open only to students on international exchange for whom the course can carry transfer credit to their home programs; all other students register for ESL 085. Both courses require a placement test or permission of the IEP director.
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3.00 Credits
Students focus on four advanced English skills: reading, writing, speaking and listening, and grammar. Primary focus stresses the skills most important at an advanced level: vocabulary building in technical, professional and academic areas, correct grammatical structures for business and academic language production, and participation in university level communications, discussions, formal questions and expressing opinions.
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3.00 Credits
This course is designed to help the ESL learner master English syntax at the sentence and paragraph level, with an introduction to basic academic essay form. Emphasis is on competency in expressing clearly complex ideas through developing various types of paragraphs. Students learn development of main and supporting ideas. ESL 104 is open only to students on international exchange for whom the course can carry transfer credit to their home programs; all other students register for ESL 074.
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