Adult Courses

 

* Introductory Level

English Skills:

• This course presents the fundamentals of the English language such as
  the alphabet, the pronunciation, dialogues, etc. Additionally, this course
  superficially exposes the student to the grammatical concepts necessary
  for interactive skills development.

Conversational Grammar:

• In this course the student identifies grammar terms and concepts which
  are gradually applied to dialogues and simple conversations. Deficiencies
  are identified through oral interaction in various activities both in the
  grammar area and the communication practice.

• This course presents the basic elements of the English language such as the conversation, grammar, vocabulary, etc. based on a visual, auditory, and written form of learning.

• This course covers the fundamental structure of the English language
  through the parts of speech application in written, conversational, and
  auditory practice.

Reading:

• The focus of this course is to prepare the student to identify important
  points in a text and develop ideas or topics to elaborate on specific
  projects orally or in written form. Pertinent vocabulary is identified and
  learned through the reading practice.

• This course involves various aspects of formal and informal writing from
  the grammatical structure to the language mechanics in order to develop
  complete and meaningful paragraph

• The objective of this course is to promote the conversation and listening skills
  through interpretation of dialogues and visual descriptions. At the same time,
  this course exposes the student to a higher oral interaction utilizing various
  activities.

• This course broadens the grammatical concepts and prepares the student
  for developing writings, phrases, requests, questions, etc. in various tenses.
  Similarly, this course covers spelling rules of verbs and nouns and their
  irregularities.

• The course presents different elements of text interpretation, evaluation, and
  analysis. It also helps students obtain reading fluency and vocabulary
  enrichment.

• In this course, the student learns to brainstorm ideas, elaborate paragraphs,
  identify paragraph characteristics, utilize different types of paragraphs, and
  initiate the essay writing process.

• In this course the student continues the conversational practice in a more
  challenging dimension. The expectations grow and the academic activities
  and demands are intensified. This course enables the student to have higher
  self-confidence when expressing him/herself in English.

• This course involves the students into higher level and more complex
  grammatical elements for oral and written practice. The contents of this
  course also prepare the student to improve his/her capacity to write formally
  and informally.

• This course gives the student higher levels of fluency in English reading while
  increasing vocabulary enrichment and analysis interpretation skills.

• This course prepares the student to develop complete essays through various
  writing techniques. At the same time, the student learns to determine the focus
  and structure of every essay applying fundamental writing criteria

• This course immerses the student into an academic environment applying
  university lexicon when discussing topics, developing written opinions,
  creating speeches, etc.

• This course poses the grammatical concepts with various oral and written
  activities in order to help students improve listening and expressive skills.

• This course focuses on the determining factors of writing such as the purpose,
  the technique, the development, etc. along with research topics and essay
  writing in controversial issues.