This course is the second satellite course to Core Course I, providing a foundation in the basics of English grammar. Students exiting this course should have a thorough understanding of all simple and progressive tenses, present and past perfect, and the present perfect progressive. Students will also receive instruction in common modal expressions, the comparison of adjectives and adverbs, and simple clausal structures. This course meets one hour a day, four days per week. This course is the second satellite course to Core Course I, providing supplemental work in the area of pronunciation and, ostensibly, speaking.
Students also receive further practice in everyday conversation and speech acts.
This course meets one hour a day, four days per week. The purpose of this course is essentially the same as Core Course I, namely to provide instruction in all language skills in an integrated, content-rich environment. I counterpart in that the content used in class and the expected outcomes are such that exiting students should be prepared for introductory freshman college course work in an English-speaking environment. This course meets two hours a day, four days per week. A satellite course to Core Course II, Composition assumes that students can write a well-organized, focused paragraph in English.