English for Academic Purposes (EAP)
The English for Academic Purposes (EAP) program is designed for English language learners preparing to succeed in academic and professional environments. Students will develop advanced vocabulary and grammar while refining their reading, writing, speaking, and critical thinking skills. The program emphasizes formal and informal American English, idiomatic expressions, and strategies for deriving meaning from complex texts. Learners will gain proficiency in composing structured essays and research papers, applying basic research methods, and critically analyzing academic texts with depth and precision. Graduates of the program will be equipped to communicate effectively in academic settings, contribute meaningfully to college-level discussions and debates, and engage confidently with a wide range of complex topics.
COURSE DESCRIPTION
Lecture Hours: 60
Lab Hours: 120
Total Clock Hours: 180
Quarter Credit Hours: 12
This course is an advanced-level exploration of vocabulary and conversation. Emphasis is placed on building and using new vocabulary, developing listening skills, and exploring spoken English. The course includes vocabulary-building activities with a focus on level-appropriate, key academic, and high-frequency vocabulary, as well as listening and speaking exercises. The course activities include lecture assignments, projects, exercises, quizzes, a midterm exam, and a final exam.
COURSE OBJECTIVES:
· Introduce appropriate level vocabulary based on topics presented in class
· Provide strategies for inferring word meaning from content and context
· Highlight the effects of stress-timed rhythm on English pronunciation
· Teach strategies for determining literal and implied intent
· Instruct on effective listening techniques and their application in communication
· Develop individual and group presentation skills
· Differentiate the use of formal and informal language in a variety of contexts
· Introduce the structural organization of a persuasive/argumentative speech
Lecture Hours: 60
Lab Hours: 120
Total Clock Hours: 180
Quarter Credit Hours: 12
This course is an advanced exploration of English grammar and writing conventions. The emphasis is placed on grammar and sentence structure. The grammar aspect of this course concentrates on the usage of clauses, modals, conditions, and punctuation. Course activities include lecture assignments, projects, exercises, quizzes, a midterm exam, and a final exam.
COURSE OBJECTIVES:
· Introduce key topical high-frequency vocabulary
· Examine examples and rules of use for present perfect, past perfect, past continuous, gerunds, infinitives, unreal conditionals, passive voice, and other advanced-level grammar points
· Review and edit writing for subject-verb agreement and pronoun-antecedent agreement
· Demonstrate proper usage of punctuation in compound and complex sentences, including sentences with coordinating and subordinating conjunctions and relative clauses
· Provide strategies and models for opening and introducing an essay or report with an attention-getting “hook” and closing with a thought-provoking, satisfying conclusion or call to action
· Guide students in identifying and refining an effective thesis statement with a clear focus and purpose
· Analyze and annotate example texts to use as models for writing for different purposes
· Edit student work and example texts together as a class, suggesting improvements and discussing reasons for corrections
· Examine examples and rules of use for gerunds, infinitives, unreal conditionals, and other advanced-level grammar points and practice these using sentence frames and writing prompts
Lecture Hours: 60
Lab Hours: 120
Total Clock Hours: 180
Quarter Credit Hours: 12
This course is an exploration of various reading strategies aimed at developing reading and understanding skills in advanced students. The course explores relevant vocabulary and grammar while focusing on analyzing and synthesizing ideas and information. Students will work with a variety of text types and graphic formats and begin to think critically about their reading material. Course activities include lecture assignments, projects, exercises, quizzes, a midterm exam, and a final exam.
COURSE OBJECTIVES:
· Prompt students to apply strategies such as previewing, skimming, scanning, and context cues to comprehend complex texts
· Instruct students in strategies to deduce the meaning and connotation of abstract and level-appropriate vocabulary from context
· Provide guided practice in how to interpret a variety of text and graphic information formats
· Facilitate critical analysis of advanced-level reading material (e.g., theme, style, structure, author’s point of view, evidence, and efficacy)
· Identify and explain types of figurative language and their meaning
· Define fact and opinion and teach language and context clues for distinguishing between them
· Identify common types of arguments and their associated signaling phrases and structures
· Provide multiple opportunities for students to summarize level-appropriate texts, both orally and in writing
· Guide students in inferring meaning from text by identifying relevant text details and relationships
· Develop students’ ability and skills to reflect on reading experiences and connections between texts in writing and discussion
Lecture Hours: 60
Lab Hours: 120
Total Clock Hours: 180
Quarter Credit Hours: 12
This course is designed to give students the tools they need to meet the challenges of writing in first-year university courses. In addition to teaching students how to develop and elaborate their ideas into longer, essays, significant emphasis will be on improving the accuracy, sophistication, and variety of students’ writing. Students will learn and use writing strategies and the writing process to develop clear, well-organized essays. They will identify and apply specific organizational patterns and connect words and phrases in their writing. Students will also learn how and why to support their ideas through reading and research, how to include and attribute quotations and facts from outside sources in their writing, how to find and identify reliable sources, and how to paraphrase and summarize information from other texts. Through the use of these processes and skills, students will complete the course by writing a high-quality, academic research paper.
COURSE OBJECTIVES:
· Introduce appropriate level vocabulary based on topics presented in class
· Provide strategies for inferring word meaning from content and context
· Highlight the effects of stress-timed rhythm on English pronunciation
· Teach strategies for determining literal and implied intent
· Instruct on effective listening techniques and their application in communication
· Develop individual and group presentation skills
· Differentiate the use of formal and informal language in a variety of contexts
· Introduce the structural organization of a persuasive/argumentative speech
Lecture Hours: 60
Lab Hours: 120
Total Clock Hours: 180
Quarter Credit Hours: 12
This course provides students with the advanced academic grammar and vocabulary necessary for participation in university-level discourse. Students will learn how to communicate using a full range of verb types and tenses, phrases and clauses, prepositions, and other grammatical forms that add precision to language use. In addition to academic grammar, students will learn and use common academic vocabulary and phrases. Also, students will learn how to analyze the parts of words, related words, and overall context to improve their comprehension of unknown words and phrases. Students will practice these skills using speaking, listening, reading, and writing with academic and real-world activities.
COURSE OBJECTIVES:
· Teach language used to describe causes and consequences
· Express attitudes and feelings using precise vocabulary and grammar
· Express speculation, criticism, regret, and degrees of doubt about past, contemporary, and future circumstances and events
· Use key topical high-frequency vocabulary and grammar to speak and write logically
· Understand how and why to use passive verbs in academic discourse
· Teach how to move phrases and clauses to different positions in a sentence
· Become familiar with the use of phrasal verbs in speaking and writing
· Discuss wishes, regrets, and common knowledge using the conditional grammar forms
· Introduce specialized vocabulary for use in academic contexts
· Instruct on using the different parts of words for vocabulary comprehension
· Provide instruction on formal and informal language
· Identify words that are commonly used together in academic speech and texts
· Review and compare uses of the English-language verb system, including tense, aspect, passive voice, and modality, using analysis of examples from real texts, error correction, direct instruction, and targeted practice
Lecture Hours: 60
Lab Hours: 120
Total Clock Hours: 180
Quarter Credit Hours: 12
In this course, students will read, analyze, and discuss a wide variety of texts, including excerpts from actual university textbooks, current media, and an original version novel. Students will learn methods of analyzing, summarizing, and synthesizing texts that are typically required in college courses, as well as how to find and evaluate reliable information sources, take organized, detailed notes from a text, and distinguish between fact, theory and opinion. Other key objectives are to build students’ vocabulary, familiarity with text conventions, and reading strategies to enable them to read quickly enough to cope with the demands of introductory-level university courses.
COURSE OBJECTIVES:
· Provide language skills, strategies, and ample practice activities to help students identify and comprehend the main ideas, purpose, and details of a wide variety of complex academic texts
· Demonstrate and assess the use of context and language cues to understand attitudes and opinions, draw inferences, and recognize statements of theory, fact, and opinion
· Teach students how to read critically and respond to complex academic readings using in-text annotation, analysis of quotes, written reflection, group discussion, comparison of texts, and evaluation of rhetorical techniques
· Illustrate different notetaking techniques and assess students’ ability to take effective notes from academic texts
· Demonstrate how to paraphrase important information and arguments in summaries of texts from a variety of academic disciplines
· Teach students how to find and identify appropriate and trustworthy information sources
· Increase students’ rate of reading using academic vocabulary development, strategies instruction, and timed and extensive reading
Additional Information
| Training Methods | Lectures/Project-Based Learning/Activities/Task-based Learning |
| Program Length in quarters/weeks | 6 Quarters or 66 weeks (60 academic weeks + 6 administrative weeks) |
| Contact Hours | 1080 (360 Lecture Clock Hours and 720 Lab Clock Hours) |
| Program Length | 72 quarter credit hours |