Subject skill courses such as reading, vocabulary, or composition are taught separately in the intermediate and advanced levels, but the skills used in each course overlap and create a high degree of course interdependence. As a result, students will find that the material they are studying in one class will frequently apply to another class. Students enrolled in the Basic Level take a combination of courses addressing the four skill areas of listening, speaking, reading, and writing. Included in these courses is extensive grammar and vocabulary development. For students with basic grammar and writing proficiency.
Emphasis is on recognition and use of basic punctuation, parts of speech, and sentence components.
This course reviews capitalization, introduces use of articles, pronouns, adjectives, adverbs, and question formation styles. It focuses on the development of paragraph writing skills with emphasis on topic sentence development, order of arrangement, and basic styles of paragraph development. For students with basic reading and vocabulary skills. Emphasis is on content comprehension, recognition of main and supporting ideas, and development of vocabulary in context. PQ3R method, and timed readings to develop each student's reading rate.