And depending on your future degree program and level of study, those credits may be transferable. They are designed to rapidly develop your reading, writing, comprehension, and conversation abilities— skills that will help you succeed in the classroom and in your personal and professional life. In Phase 2 and 3, language studies wrap around your academic subjects— supporting you all the way through the semester. Mastering English is only the beginning.
There are so many new things to take in, so much to learn as you fully enter into life on a busy Boston campus! Advanced language skills, experience, and confidence that prepare you for one of the most important steps of your life Are you thinking about earning a degree at Northeastern University or other U.
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Get it to any device in seconds. American Classroom Brochure. Focuses on all relevant areas of English proficiency and addresses study techniques, test-taking strategies, and reducing test anxiety. Advanced Reading for Graduate School. Offers students an opportunity to become active and critical readers of complex academic texts. Active reading, the principal learning approach, entails close engagement with the information in an assigned reading by deconstructing a text, synthesizing main ideas, and making connections with other scholarship in a field.
Focuses on identifying discipline-specific vocabulary, untangling grammatical structures, and outlining textual features of a variety of genres in a range of academic disciplines. Restricted to Global Pathways students only. Advanced Listening and Speaking for Graduate School. Offers students an opportunity to learn how to make speech more understandable in a variety of settings telephone, one-on-one conversation, presentations and to improve their active listening skills.
Seeks to enable students to identify the key aspects of pronunciation, choose appropriate speaking strategies to modify their own spoken English, identify characteristics that influence spoken English, and demonstrate control of pitch and intonation. Research and Writing for Graduate School.
Addresses formal investigation as one of the primary means of creating knowledge. Examines philosophical issues underpinning the nature of knowledge claims, the relationship of knowledge to evidence, and techniques of gathering and interpreting evidence. Analyzes the purposes of research; the methods of quantitative, qualitative, and mixed research; and the processes involved in research studies. Offers students an opportunity to conduct a research project in small groups by selecting a topic from a relevant area of study, designing a research proposal, reviewing relevant literature, and presenting methodology and conclusions in written form.
Offers students an opportunity to obtain the skills, strategies, and confidence they need to maximize their scores on the TOEFL test through exercises, explanations, and practice exams. Covers all sections of the exam, including listening, structure, reading, and writing.
Advanced Communication Strategies. Effective communication in English is essential to the success of international students in integrating with their peers, establishing social networks, and interacting with University personnel and others in American society. Offers students an opportunity to learn to integrate appropriate proxemics, back channeling, timing, conversational hedges, and other features into their interactions and to become more aware of how their choice of words, tone, assertiveness, and level of formality can affect the success of their communications.
Students are expected to analyze their own interaction style and devise a plan for improving their communication. Offers international students preparing for undergraduate study an opportunity to develop their academic writing skills. Explores a variety of texts and genres.
Focuses on composition basics and the use of metaphor, organization, selection, tone, and viewpoint. Students read texts of some complexity, make critical interpretations in writing, write expository prose that makes use of a variety of rhetorical strategies, and conduct library research when appropriate.
Offers students an opportunity to reflect on and assess their writing and learn to integrate and cite sources appropriately. Requires students to write multiple drafts and emphasizes the writing process as well as the quality of the finished product. Students are expected to keep a portfolio of their work and develop a final extended paper exploring a topic of interest in-depth. Advanced Listening and Speaking. Offers advanced ESL students an opportunity to obtain the confidence and skills to participate effectively in the American classroom as well as to perform successfully on a standardized English-language exam.
Students participate in and lead class discussions and give formal oral presentations with the aim of improving academic listening skills. In addition to developing testing skills, students work on note-taking skills, study rhetorical expectations, interact with instructors and advisors, and sharpen their oral skills by engaging critically with others in class.
Takes a balanced approach to fluency and accuracy and strives to help students become autonomous learners through use of technology. Takes a problem-solving approach to preparing students for graduate studies in an American university setting. Through speakers, field surveys, and the analysis of current research and trends, the course offers students an opportunity to determine what factors are necessary for success in an American university at the graduate level. Focuses on building reading, writing, listening, and speaking skills in English to enable students to participate effectively in graduate courses.
Requires students to participate in ESLG as part of their studies. Offers students an opportunity to learn how to engage with and evaluate texts and issues drawn from their discipline.
Focuses on critical thinking, reading, and writing. Encourages students to find their own academic voice by developing their ability to weigh evidence and arguments of others and contribute their own perspective. Includes activities and research components.
Comprises eight components, taught concurrently by the same teacher and tightly interconnected in skills, materials, and assignments: 1 academic writing, 2 academic writing workshop, 3 academic reading, 4 presentation and discussion, 5 English grammar and usage, 6 study skills, 7 U. These eight components complement each other and overlap in topic and materials. Covers 1 academic writing, 2 academic writing workshop, 3 academic reading, 4 presentation and discussion, 5 English grammar and usage, 6 study skills, 7 U.
Offers students an opportunity to strengthen their acquisition of skills and to streamline their work so that they are prepared to make the most of their education in the United States.
Offers students an opportunity to learn about career possibilities and education options and understand their skills before committing to a particular degree path. Topics include U. Uses classes, group discussions, and one-to-one conversations with counselors to assist students to acquire the knowledge, resources, and self-awareness necessary to make short-range plans and to assess long-term academic and career options.
Seeks to provide students with the computer and Internet skills expected of an incoming sophomore at a U. Covers how to edit and format with Microsoft Word; how to build and deliver PowerPoint presentations; and how to enter, organize, and graph data in Microsoft Excel.
Also covers how to use the Internet effectively, including control of search engines and Boolean search operators; the proper discovery and use of Internet-based reference material; evaluation of the authority and reliability of Web-based materials; and the use of online library catalogs, journal databases, and their search functions.
Designed for students undertaking the U. Pathway Program. Offers students an opportunity to develop critical thinking and analysis skills and to obtain knowledge for study at an American university.
Continues ESLG Offers students an opportunity to enhance their critical thinking, reading, and analysis skills; computer skills; active note-taking skills; and knowledge for study at an American university. Students practice synthesizing information and data and lead formal discussions to present research.
As a final project, students are required to complete a report on a chosen topic. Offers students an opportunity to learn the concept of academic integrity and the consequences of its violations, particularly plagiarism. Requires students to be able to demonstrate an awareness of plagiarism and the ability to apply referencing norms with control. Offers an introduction to living and learning in the United States and on a U. Northeastern University. Office of the Dean.
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