ESL Course Description
1. EN007IU – AE1 Academic Writing (2 credits)
Prerequisites: IE2 courses, or placement into AE1, or valid minimum scores of 61 TOEFL iBT/ 6.0 IELTS
This course provides students with comprehensive instructions and practice in essay writing. Students will learn to transform their ideas into different functions of writing such as process description, cause-effect, comparison-contrast, argumentative, and paraphrase-summary essays. Students are required to read university-level texts critically, and respond in a written form accurately, coherently and academically.
2. EN008IU – AE1 Listening: Listening and Note-taking (2 credits)
Prerequisites: IE2 courses, or placement into AE1, or valid minimum scores of 61 TOEFL iBT/ 6.0 IELTS
The course prepares students for effective listening and note-taking skills to take courses in their majors. The course is therefore lecture-based in that the teaching and learning procedure is built up on lectures on a variety of topics such as business, science, and humanities.
3. EN011IU – Writing AE2: Research Paper Writing (2 credits)
Prerequisite: AE1 writing course
This course introduces basic concepts in research paper writing, especially the role of generalizations, definitions, classifications, and the structure of a research paper to students who attend English- medium institutions or universities. It also provides them with methods of developing and presenting an argument, a comparison or a contrast.
4. EN012IU – AE2 Speaking: Effective Presentations (2 credits)
Prerequisites: AE1 courses
The course provides students with necessary knowledge and skills to deliver effective presentations, such as preparing and planning, using appropriate language, applying effective visual aids, building up confidence, performing body language, and dealing with questions.