Intensive English Program (IEP)
The Intensive English Program (IEP) develops students’ vocabulary, grammar, writing, reading, and communication skills for both real-life and educational contexts. Instruction emphasizes vocabulary expansion, paragraph organization, and reading comprehension through strategies such as previewing, predicting, using word clues, and interpreting visual information. Students build confidence speaking in a variety of settings while strengthening their writing skills to produce clear, grammatically correct paragraphs, including expository forms. Grammar instruction covers the foundations of sentence structure, verb tenses, and subject–verb agreement as well as more advanced concepts such as modal verbs, passive voice, verb structures, and conditional sentences. Upon completion, students will be able to interact comfortably in personal, college-level, and professional situations, write with clarity and accuracy, and apply effective reading strategies to a wide range of texts.
COURSE DESCRIPTION
Lecture Hours: 60
Lab Hours: 120
Total Clock Hours: 180
Quarter Credit Hours: 12
This course is a beginner-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 high-frequency vocabulary. It also incorporates listening and speaking exercises. The course activities include lecture assignments, projects, exercises, quizzes, a midterm exam, and a final exam.
COURSE OBJECTIVES:
· Introduce and use a variety of high-frequency vocabulary.
· Facilitate the development of vocabulary-building strategies.
· Teach vocabulary to describe ideas, feelings, and surroundings.
· Present basic grammar structures used in everyday conversation.
· Instruct on how to listen for specific information and main ideas.
· Introduce individual and group presentation skills.
Lecture Hours: 60
Lab Hours: 120
Total Clock Hours: 180
Quarter Credit Hours: 12
This course is an introduction to 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 appropriate pronouns, articles, modals, and basic tenses. Course activities include lecture assignments, projects, exercises, quizzes, a midterm exam, and a final exam.
COURSE OBJECTIVES:
· Deliver beginner-level grammar concepts in a correct and meaningful way.
· Develop the ability to write a variety of simple and compound sentence structures.
· Develop correct use of gender and count pronouns and articles.
· Instruct on how to develop an organized paragraph that describes a familiar subject.
· Present on subject/verb agreement, verb tenses, word order in phrasal verbs, and sentence boundaries.
· Demonstrate the proper use of articles, pronouns, and prepositions.
Lecture Hours: 60
Lab Hours: 120
Total Clock Hours: 180
Quarter Credit Hours: 12
This course is an introduction to various reading strategies aimed at developing reading and understanding skills in beginner 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:
· Instruct on how to identify key information in basic passages.
· Teach how to deduce the meaning of vocabulary words from context clues.
· Explain how to read a variety of basic text and graphic information formats.
· Introduce the strategies of critical thinking.
· Teach how to analyze beginner-level reading material.
· Facilitate the selection of key information to summarize a simple text.
Lecture Hours: 60
Lab Hours: 120
Total Clock Hours: 180
Quarter Credit Hours: 12
This course is an intermediate-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 and use a wider variety of mid-frequency vocabulary.
· Facilitate the development of vocabulary-building strategies.
· Teach how to speak with confidence in individual and group presentations.
· Present the structural organization of an informative/demonstrative speech.
· Develop strategies to listen for connections between people and ideas.
· Identify vocabulary by listening for stressed and reduced syllables.
Lecture Hours: 60
Lab Hours: 120
Total Clock Hours: 180
Quarter Credit Hours: 12
This course is an intermediate-level 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 correct tenses, adjectives, adverbs, auxiliary verbs, comparatives, and superlatives. Course activities include lecture assignments, projects, exercises, quizzes, a midterm exam, and a final exam.
COURSE OBJECTIVES:
· Deliver intermediate-level grammar concepts in a correct and meaningful way.
• Explain the difference between action and non-action verbs.
• Teach the methods of simple, compound, and complex sentence construction and word order in affirmative, negative, and interrogative sentences.
• Examine and practice common verb forms and tenses.
• Provide direction on appropriate paragraph and essay structure.
• Demonstrate the basic steps in writing summaries and essays (prewrite, write, review, edit, final draft).
• Teach how to analyze and interpret texts using written arguments with appropriate support.
Lecture Hours: 60
Lab Hours: 120
Total Clock Hours: 180
Quarter Credit Hours: 12
This course is an intermediate-level course that focuses on various reading strategies aimed at developing reading and understanding skills in intermediate 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:
· Present and explain strategies to identify the main ideas of an intermediate-level reading piece.
· Review how to use context clues to deduce the meaning of vocabulary words from the intermediate-level reading material.
· Elaborate on the steps to interpret visual information (charts, graphs, etc.).
· Instruct on how to critically analyze intermediate-level reading materials.
· Explain how to summarize intermediate-level texts through the use of appropriate vocabulary and main ideas.
· Introduce reading strategies (prediction, skimming, and scanning) to make reading more efficient.
· Introduce the concept of figurative language.
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 |