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General English
 

The GE program is designed to serve students in their efforts to improve their English language skills. It offers basic through advanced courses in the areas of Listening, Speaking, Reading, Writing, and Grammar. Specialty courses focus on TOEFL iBT, TOEIC, English for IT, English for Business, and SAT.

 
Our dedicated teaching staff will help the students achieve their goals of language proficiency for self-improvement, academic studies, and job enhancement.


Goal 1: To use English to communicate in social settings.

  • Standard 1: Students will use English to participate in social interactions
  • Standard 2: Students will interact in, through, and with spoken and written English for personal expression and enjoyment.
  • Standard 3: Students will use learning strategies to extend their communicative competence.

Goal 2: To use English to achieve academically in all content areas.

  • Standard 1: Students will use English to interact in classroom.
  • Standard 2: Students will use English to obtain, process, construct, and provide subject matter information in spoken and written form.
  • Standard 3: Students will use appropriate learning strategies to construct and apply academic knowledge.

Goal 3: To use English in socially and culturally appropriate ways.

  • Standard 1: Students will use the appropriate language variety, register, and genre according to audience, purpose, and setting.
  • Standard 2: Students will use nonverbal communication appropriate to audience, purpose, and setting.
  • Standard 3: Students will use appropriate learning strategies to extend their sociolinguistic and sociocultural competence.

Goal 4: To pass an international TOEFL with a satisfactory score of 550 (paper-and-pencil TOEFL) or above, and SAT with a satisfactory score of 550 or above (verbal session).

  • Standard 1: Students will be able to understand and interpret spoken English.
  • Standard 2: Students will be able to recognize formal written English and to choose the most economical, mature, and correct ways of stating sentences.
  • Standard 3: Students will be able to understand, interpret and analyze reading passages on a variety of topics.
Goal 5: To be familiar with (Business and Computer Science) terminology and to develop all four skills, with special emphasis on vocabulary acquisition and grammatical accuracy.
 
 
* AASE and Study Skills Syllabi