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CIE — Center for International EducationThis course has been created to provide additional instruction for students preparing to enter the Business school, with specific focus on the vocabulary and conceptual knowledge necessary to be successful in that field of study.Primary focus is the sentence level of a paragraph, which includes the basic structure of a sentence, connecting words, the use of capital letters, end punctuation, and the difference between simple and complex sentences.Primary focus is understanding basic English grammar beginning with the verb form of “be” in the present and past tense. In addition, students will study pronouns, nouns, adjectives, and the present tense of verbs.Primary focus is: learning new vocabulary for academic use and basic reading strategies. Students will learn roots, affixes, and inflected forms of words, collocations, topics, main ideas, and supporting details.Primary focus is: learning to differentiate between statements and questions, fact and opinion, identifying main ideas, listening for a speaker’s point of view, and note-taking techniques for academic classes.Primary focus is: the paragraph level of writing. This includes the steps of the writing process: prewriting, drafting, and revising, organizational patterns, such as chronological and spatial order, transition signals and description.Primary focus is: the present tense of verbs, past tense, future tense, pronouns, including demonstratives, regular and irregular verbs, count and non-count nouns and prepositions.Primary focus is: learning new vocabulary, focusing on contextual clues, reading skills like previewing, predicting, skimming, and scanning, sequencing ideas and demonstrating ability to differentiate between fact and opinion.Students will be able to define and use new vocabulary, discuss main ideas, details and examples related lectures, and identify chronology, process, and classify/define. Also, students will take notes, work on pronunciation and presentation skills.Students will learn: the writing process, finding and narrowing topic, pronouns, adjectives and adverbs, narration, support, order, description, capitalization, commas, quotation marks, and compare/contrast.Students will show competency with: nouns and quantifiers, articles, prepositional phrases, “Wh” questions, gerunds, linking verbs, adjectives, adverbs, independent & dependent clauses, future time clauses, simple, compound, & complex sentences.Students will learn: new vocabulary, main ideas, specific information & facts using outside resources & direct quotes, identification of author’s position or opinion, drawing conclusions and making comparisons.Students will learn note taking skills, incorporate rhetorical cues, use outlining skills to organize lecture notes, make generalizations, recognize new vocabulary from content lectures & practice pronunciation.Students will learn: writing a complete plan for essays, coordination and subordination, titles, introductions, conclusions, finding & correcting fragments and run-ons, revising, editing, cause/effect & compare/contrast rhetorical styles.Students will learn: verb tenses, stative/condition verbs, present perfect progressive and present perfect, infinitives after certain verbs, gerunds and infinitives, and modals.Students will be able to: identify chapter headings and subheadings, differentiate between fact and opinion, statement of position, identify main ideas and specific information, make inferences, determine position, & learn new vocabulary.Students will continue to better understand academic lectures, give oral presentations, demonstrate the ability to speak spontaneously, use PowerPoint, participate in a group presentation based on interviews and improve pronunciation.Students will produce well-organized paragraphs and essays using academic vocabulary, unity, & coherence. They will write an analytical process-analysis essay as well as several summaries of academic journal articles.Students will prove competency with present perfect, past perfect, present perfect progressive, avoiding sentence fragments, negative Yes/No Questions and Tag questions, Too, Neither, Not either, avoiding repetition with addition connectors.Students will improve their ability to effectively comprehend academic texts, understand vocabulary from context and expand their knowledge of academic vocabulary, and use reading strategies such as previewing and predicting.Students will recognize lecture cues, use context and prediction to understand main ideas, synthesize and summarize information from listening selections, give a summary/analysis presentation & debate and work on pronunciation.Students will learn to use supporting information in the form of quotations, statistics, summary, paraphrase and in-text citation. They will use consistent point-of-view and number agreement in extended definition and argumentation essays.Students will demonstrate competency with: adjective clauses, modals and similar expressions, speculations and conclusions about the past, nouns and articles, direct and indirect speech, and sentence connectors.Students will be able to demonstrate point of view, effective summaries, critical evaluation of online sources. They will continue to expand their knowledge of academic vocabulary in their specific disciplines.In this course students will be able to familiarize themselves with the question types on the TOEFL iBT and practice skills designed to increase their test scores in all sections of the test.Students will demonstrate competency in their ability to compile and present research-based information in oral presentations. They will identify and improve pronunciation errors, think critically, and use high-level academic vocabulary.Students will demonstrate competency in: ability to compose a problem-solution research paper with title page, headings, in-text citation, end-of-text citation, paraphrases, direct quotes, reporting verbs, and relevant & convincing academic research.