Undergraduate Catalog 2021-2022

CIE 020 High-Basic Speaking & Listening

This class continues and expands basic conversation strategies. Students learn strategies for eliciting details and prolonging conversations. The information presented in recorded dialogues becomes more detailed and complex. Strategies to improve specific pronunciation errors are introduced.
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CIE 021 High-Basic Writing

This course continues to work at the sentence level, introducing compound sentences to the students. Students are also introduced to paragraph writing and practice producing the components of an academic paragraph: a topic sentence, supporting sentence, and a concluding sentence.
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CIE 023 High-Basic Grammar

The primary focus of this class is the introduction of the present simple and progressive tenses, as well as the simple past of regular and irregular verbs, and the introduction of count and non-count nouns. Additionally, this course is designed to reinforce the simple sentence structure for the students to be able to discuss/write about everyday events: school, shopping, leisure etc.
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CIE 024 High-Basic Reading & Vocabulary

In this course, students will complete their study of phonics and read simple fiction and non-fiction texts. They will be introduced to the reading strategies such as predicting and scanning.
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CIE 025 English Pronunciation

This course is for low-advanced and advanced students in the IEP who would like to improve their phonetic and pronunciational (oral fluency) skills in English. Students will be trained to readjust their speech organs in order to minimize the influence of their native language sound system and improve their ability to distinguish and produce English sounds. Additionally, students will work on their oral fluency in English. Therefore, students will be introduced to articulatory and auditory phonetics in their applied forms.
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