Program Levels
To participate you must have completed high school. Degree seeking students who have provisional admission with an english language requirement must complete all courses at 80% or higher. Undergraduate students may begin taking academic classes when they reach Level 6. Graduate students may begin taking academic class when they reach Level 7.
Level 1
- Recognize basic vocabulary
- Understand spoken messages delivered slowly
- Spell letters of the alphabet
- Read simple words and short sentences
- Pronounce basic vocabulary
- Communicate ideas in simple sentences
- Fill out forms
- Explain something that happened in the past
- Explain something that is happening now
- Communicate through simple social exchanges
- Write short paragraphs on familiar topics
- Use complete sentences to tell a story
- Read a complete paragraph and outline key parts
- Join a conversation and deduct meaning from contextual clues
- Observe the standard structure in writing
- Use basic transition words to preserve flow of ideas
- Navigate texts to understand ideas
- Grasp point and details of conversations, lectures etc.
- Provide details to support personal statement in essays
- Use appropriate grammatical forms to have a conversation
- Locate key information from academic readings
- Understand and use high-level academic vocabulary
- Write short academic paper defending your position on a certain topic
- Present ideas completely using all 12 of English tenses
- Use reading strategies to isolate and incorporate key information in presentations and compositions
- Be fluent, logical and exact in oral responses
- Understand and use puns
- Write a research proposal
- Critique academic research