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F-1 Visa Requirements for English Studies
F-1 visa students are required to take at least 12 credit hours or 18 class hours (non-credit) to maintain F-1 status in the U.S. Non-credit students in the IEP are required to attend and make progress in at least 18 class hours each week.
Para estudantes em Níveis Iniciais da Língua Inglesa
(Pontuação no TOEFEL menor que 400[iBT]/100[CBT])
F-1 visa students are required to take at least 12 credit hours or 18 class hours (non-credit) to maintain F-1 status in the U.S. Non-credit students in the IEP are required to attend and make progress in at least 18 class hours each week.
(Pontuação no TOEFEL menor que 400[iBT]/100[CBT])
Students who test at the basic levels of English must take at least basic English eslewhere. We encourage them to attend the English Language Center at Crowder College, about 20 miles from MSSU. Crowder offers an English program that will prepare studnts for unerversity work, but specialize at low skills levels. For additional information, visit the Crowder College website or contact the MSSU program for more information.
Para estudantes em Níveis de Inglês Intermediário
( Pontuações no TOEFEL entre [iBT]/100 e [iBT]/173 [CBT])
These classes are also offered as non-credit courses for three class hours each week.
ESL 071/101 Grammar I focuses on common grammar structures in English.. Students find this course most helpful when taken with at least one other IEP speaking or writing course. The IEP wants students to understand the relationship of structure to meaning and use of the structures.
ESL 072/102 Intermediate Speaking and Listening teaches English for common settings: conversations, requests for information and help, performances and media, sharing abstract ideas and strategies for clarifying meaning.
ESL 073/103 Intermediate Reading and Vocabulary familiarizes students with American culture and builds a vocabulary of commonly used words and expressions. It assists students with building reading speed and developing reading strategies for comprehension.
ESL 074/104 Intermediate ESL Composition teaches good writing skills at the paragraph level and simple writing tasks such as information sharing and extended description.
Os cursos intermediários oferecem 3 horas de aula por semana, durante um período de 16 semanas e são ministrados a cada semestre do outono, e na primavera, quando houver procura suficiente. Estudantes intermediários devem participar do Clube de Leitura, da Clínica de Pronúncia e passar uma hora por semana com um tutor de linguagem da I.E.P. e um parceiro de conversação.
ESL 077 Intermediate Skills in English [Evenings] teaches reading, speaking, writing and grammar at the same time and is available for working families with limited time. This course meets two times each week, with homework and out of class assignments required.
Para estudantes em Níveis de Inglês Avançado
(Pontuações no TOEFL entre [iBT]/173 [CBT] e [iBT]/200 [CBT])
These classes are also offered as non-credit courses for three class hours each week.
ESL 081/121 Grammar II focuses on advanced grammar structures in English used especially in formal and academic speaking and writing. The course is offered during the spring term as one of the four program courses. Special focus includes the perfect tenses, passive voice, clause and phrase structures and discussion of the relationship of tense to time and non-real references.
ESL 082/122 Academic Speaking and Listening specializes on classroom settings: participating in and leading discussions, presenting reports, forming good questions for information, note-taking skills with examinations in mind. Students learn more advanced and academic vocabulary and idiomatic expressions. Student leadership of general discussions and presentations of ideas are frequent.
ESL 083/123 Reading in Academic Contexts familiarizes students with the particular problems of reading academic texts and the amount of reading required in university courses. Students learn to build reading speed and develop reading strategies for difficult texts and unfamiliar and technical vocabulary. Students also learn when to employ particular strategies appropriate for a given reading purpose.
ESL 084/124 ESL Academic Composition helps students write well in extended discourse, such as answering essay questions and writing essays for courses. This class includes grammar so that students have practice using advanced structures of English and structures common to academic discourse. The course includes an introduction to writing in the several styles, although not all styles are taught each time the course is offered. .
ESL 085/125 ESL Skills for the University is a content based, finishing course for Advanced Learners. It is a normal university course including all the skills a student needs to be successful in an American university. The course is offered in the fall term and meets in a regular university classroom. Two days each week are spent on the topic (currently: "Learning to Live in foreign cultures"), with students reading, presenting, discussing and preparing reports on the topic.
Cursos avancados oferecem 3 horas de aula por semana, durante um período de 16 semanas e são ministrados toda primavera e no outono, quando necessário. Estudantes avançados devem participar do Clube de Leitura, da Clínica de Pronúncia e passar uma hora por semana com um tutor de linguagem da I.E.P.. Eles também fazem visitas às salas dos cursos regulares.
ESL 087 Advanced Skills in English [Evenings] teaches reading, speaking, writing and grammar and is available for working families with limited time. This course meets two times times each week, with homework and out of class assignments required.
Para estudantes em Níveis de Inglês Altamente Avançado
(Pontuação no TOEFL acima de [iBT]/200 [CBT])
O I.E.P. oferece assistência para aprendizes de línguas além do I.E.P. e em cursos regulares da Universidade. Além da assitência com tutores oferecida no Centro de Aprendizado do campus e do Laboratório de Língua Internacional de Linguagem no Webster Hall, estudantes que possuem dificuldades com a língua em cursos regulares são aconselhados a se inscrever em cursos do I.E.P., de acordo com a necessidade de cada caso.
ESL 125 Reading for Pronunciation and Vocabulary Building is a skill building course for accent reduction and professional/technical vocabulary building. Students and the instructor read together inside and outside of class and use the class times to review vocabulary and practice specific difficulties in spoken American English. Much time is spent on issues of stress, speaking rhythm, word clumping and tonal changes.
Todos os cursos são oferecidos de três maneiras: como curso sem ganho de crédito, baseado num programa com cobrança de taxa; como cursos de 070 de crédito (não para colação de grau), para estudantes que pretendem continuar na MSSU; e como cursos de 100 de crédito (Transferência), para estudantes que estarão transferindo seu estudo de Inglês de volta a sua Universidade natal.
Além da sala de aula
Com cerca de 12 horas por semana de atividades realizadas em sala de aula, a I.E.P. também oferece trabalhos fora da sala de aula, direcionados ao desenvimento das habilidades da língua Inglesa através da prática. Non credit students must be enrolled in three of these classes or activities.
ESL 076 Technology for the I.E.P. is taught each semester for students needing instruction in the use of computers. Since computers are very much a part of university education, students are introduced to keyboarding and document formatting, email, web browsing and searching, and the university computing system.
ESL 078 Pronunciation Clinic is held one day each week for all students taking 7 or more IEP credits. Activities focus on skill-building for comprehension, especially working on pronunciation problems that create difficulty in understanding for the speaker or the listener.
ESL 079 The Readers' Workshop is held weekly and students taking more than 7 IEP credits must participate. The Club encourages reading for fun and good conversation on more advanced topics. Even intermediate students who struggle with reading the texts finds helpful experience in English at the club meetings.
IEP Electronic Tutoring is available for all students and study packets are available to work on-line in areas of grammar, vocabulary building, reading and writing. Non-credit students are expected to spend three hours each week on these activities.
Conversation Partners, who are native English speakers, are assigned to each IEP student. Students and their partners meet at least once each week to share ideas, events, concerns and desires. IEP students report on their experiences with conversation partners.
Atividades, clubes, associações e Famílias Anfitriãs convidam estudantes da I.E.P. a participar por um semestre de suas atividades, que incluem encontros, refeições, projetos de serviço, turismo e encontros sociais. Estas reuniões de “vida real”, tanto encorajam o uso do Inglês, quanto fornecem aos estudantes internacionais uma “casa fora de casa”, enquanto estiverem nos Estados Unidos. Mais importante, elas fornecem uma janela para a cultura americana como não se encontra disponível de nenhuma outra maneira.
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