Para Estudiantes de Nivel de Ingles Bajo
(Resultados del TOEFEL es menos de 400[IBT]/100[CBT]
El IEP tiene relaciones con un colegio cercano, Crowder College, para instrucción para aprendices de el idioma Ingles en el nivel de principiantes. Los estudiantes pueden enrolarse en Crowder College y vivir en su campus o en el campus de MSSU y tener medio de transporte para Crowder College para sus clases. Contáctanos para más información.
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Para Estudiantes de un Nivel Intermedio de Ingles
(Resultados del Examen del TOEFL entre [IBT]/100 [CBT/173 [CBT])
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.
Cursos intermedios son llevados 3 horas a la semana por 16 semanas y son ofrecidos cada semestre de otoño y en la primavera cuando sea necesario. A los estudiantes de nivel intermedio se les espera que participen en los clubes de lectura, clínicas de pronunciación y estar al menos una hora a la semana con un instructor del programa IEP y también con un compañero de conversación.
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.
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Para estudiantes de nivel avanzado
(Resultados del examen del TOEFL entre [IBT]/173 [CBT] y [IBT]/200 [CBT])
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 de nivel avanzados son llevados 3 horas a la semana por 16 semanas y son ofrecidos cada semestre de otoño y en la primavera cuando sea necesario.. A los estudiantes de nivel intermedio se les espera que participen en los clubes de lectura, clínicas de pronunciación y estar al menos una hora a la semana con un instructor del programa IEP y también hacer visitas al salon de clases en 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.
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Para estudiantes de muy alto nivel de Ingles
(Resultados del TOEFL deben ser superiores a [iBT]/200 [CBT] )
El IEP ofrece asistencia a los aprendices del lenguaje con nivel más alto al del IEP y en cursos regulares de la universidad. En adición a la asistencia tutorial ofrecido en el centro de aprendizaje del campus de la universidad y el laboratorio internacional en Webster Hall, estudiantes que tengan problemas en cursos regulares son recomendados a enrolarse en los cursos del IEP necesitados.
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.
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Todos los cursos son ofrecidos de tres formas: cursos de no créditos, y basados en honorarios como forma de pago; como 070(no créditos para graduarse) cursos para estudiantes se esperan que continúen en MSSU; y como 100(transferidos) cursos de crédito que estudiantes pueden transferir a cualquier universidad de donde provengan. (País donde reside)

De más alto nivel
Con alrededor de 12 horas a la semana de actividades en el salón de clases, el IEP también provee fuera de clases trabajos. Dirigidos para mejorar las habilidades a través del uso de las mismas.
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 Tutorial Help is required
of all intermediate students and recommended to all advanced students
on a weekly basis. Tutoring may be on a topic of specific interest
to the student or on a topic referred by one of the students' instructors.
But students are expected to meet with a tutor at least one hour each
week.
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.
Actividades, clubes, Asociaciones, y familias de acogidas invitan a los estudiantes internacionales del IEP a pasarla con ellos durante un semestre de actividades., incluyendo reuniones, comidas, proyectos, turismo y sociales. Estos incentivos de "vida real" usan ambos el uso del Ingles y proveen estudiantes internacionales con una "casa lejos de su casa" en su estadía en los Estados Unidos. Más importante, ellos son también una ventana sobre la cultura americana que esta no disponible en casi ninguna otra forma.
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