English Language Institute Classes

The following classes are offered through the English Language Institute:

LEVEL I, Intermediate English

Grammar I:
Students in ELI 055, Grammar I, will be expected to demonstrate a level of proficiency in the following competencies in order to successfully complete this course.

  • Using Be and Have
  • Expressing Present time, Past time, and Future time
  • Nouns, Pronouns, and Adjectives
  • Making Comparisons
  • Expressing Ideas with Verbs

Listening & Speaking I:
Students in ELI 053, Listening & Speaking I, will be expected to demonstrate a level of proficiency in the following competencies in order to successfully complete this course.

  • Understand and respond to simple day-to-day conversation situations
  • Speak with good pronunciation
  • Converse with native speakers with little difficulty in simple conversation topics

Reading & Writing I:
Students in ELI 051, Reading & Writing I, will be expected to demonstrate a level of proficiency in the following competencies in order to successfully complete this course.

  • Reading for main idea, inferences, and context clues
  • Read for retention
  • Write in Present, Past, and Future tense
  • Write summaries and paraphrase
  • Write using correct punctuation and basic grammar

LEVEL II, Advanced English

Grammar II:
Students in ELI 075 will be expected to demonstrate a level of proficiency in the following competencies in order to successfully complete this course.

  • Verb Tenses
  • Modals
  • Passive Verbs
  • Gerunds and Infinitives

Listening & Speaking II:
Students in ELI 73 will be expected to demonstrate a level of proficiency in the following competencies in order to successfully complete this course.

  • Understand the main ideas and facts of simplified academic lectures
  • Take notes of the main ideas and facts of simplified academic lectures
  • Understand the main ideas and facts of authentic new broadcasts, conversations, and movies
  • Understand sounds, stress, rhythm, and intonation of English words and sentences
  • Use sounds, stress, rhythm, and intonation of English words and sentences
  • Talk about daily situations
  • Discuss ideas in groups
  • Give short, unprepared and prepared speeches

Reading & Writing II:
Students in ELI 051 will be expected to demonstrate a level of proficiency in the following competencies in order to successfully complete this course.

  • Reading for main idea/comprehension, restatement and inferences, context clues, and full understanding
  • Read with appropriate comprehension: Newspaper Articles, Technical Prose, Literature, Scientific Writing, and Poetry
  • Writing skills: paraphrasing, paragraph writing, creating topic sentences, summarizing, outlining, persuasive writing, poetic prose, etc.
  • Writing Grammar focuses: correcting sentence fragments and run-ons, subject-verb agreement, coherence, using a variety of sentences, parallelism, and consistency in tense, person, number, and tone


 
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