Upcoming terms
| Term | Term Dates |
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Spring I 2024 |
January 8 – March 1, 2024 (Holiday 1/15) |
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Spring II 2024 |
March 11 – May 10, 2024 (Holiday 3/18-22) |
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Summer 2024 |
June 3 – July 26, 2024 (Holiday 7/4) |
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Fall I 2024 |
August 5 - September 27, 2024 (Holiday 9/2) |
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Fall II 2024 |
October 7 - December 6, 2024 (Holiday 11/25-29) |
Courses
Level 3: Intermediate
Students will:
- Develop language that can be applied to life skills and academic purposes.
- Discuss topics and experience short lectures.
- Listen to sample academic lectures and will practice note-taking skills based on lectures.
- Practice decoding and sight-word skills to quickly preview, skim and scan texts.
- Participate in activities to summarize events and main ideas of written text.
- Identify significant and relative details in readings and will practice strategies such as using context clues and word parts to deal with unknown words and acquire new vocabulary.
- Focus on the process of writing (pre-writing activities, revising and editing), sentence structure and organization as well as grammar and expansion of their vocabulary.
Level 4: Advanced Intermediate
Students will:
- Listen to academic lectures and presentations in order to gather information and take appropriate notes.
- Practice speaking skills in order to prepare and deliver a comprehensive and factually correct three-minute oral presentation on an assigned topic.
- Develop academic reading skills as well as critical thinking skills which students will use to understand, analyze, discuss and write responses to ideas expressed in readings.
- Become familiar with parts of speech, prefixes, suffixes, and roots as aids in understanding new vocabularies.
- Review the skills required for writing cause/effect and compare/contrast academic essays with a focus on essay expansion, modification, and the writing process.
Level 5: Advanced
Students will:
- Listen to academic lectures in order to gather information and take detailed notes.
- Practice speaking skills in order to prepare and deliver a comprehensive and factually correct five-minute oral presentation on an assigned topic employing appropriate visual and text-based supports.
- Develop further knowledge of academic English with a focus on prefixes, suffixes and root words that will enable students to decode a new vocabulary.
- Continue to practice writing a variety of essay types (persuasive and reaction) on a variety of topics using academic language.
