NWTC Intensive English Program Guide Issue 2017-18 | Page 4

Advanced Level
(TOEFL pb 450-479, ibt 45-53, IELTS 5.0-5.5)
IEP Advanced Listening and Speaking
develop strategies for listening and note-taking and
practice speaking in pairs and small groups. Students
also develop fluency and
grammatical accuracy as they discuss conversational
and academic topics, support opinions in debates,
and deliver formal presentations. Listening for main
ideas and supporting details, building conversational
fluency, and developing pronunciation are the main
skills emphasized in this course.
IEP Advanced Reading
This course will build the learners’ reading skills in
both academic and informal genres. Students will
read articles and academic essays as they identify
main ideas, identify supporting details, read for
speed, and develop inferencing skills. Learners will
also participate in classroom reading discussions and
write responses to the authors’ viewpoints.
IEP Advanced Writing
This course builds the learners’ reading and writing
skills in academic and informal genres as they
critically examine articles and produce academic
essays. Students will investigate essay structure and
organization, paragraph development, coherence,
persuasive writing, mechanics, diction, and
proofreading. Source selection and citation will be
discussed as well. Students will utilize the writing
process (pre-writing, drafting, revising, editing) to
refine their writing.
IEP Advanced Grammar
In this course, learners will investigate the
interaction of grammatical form, meaning, and use,
applying grammatical concepts to communicative
contexts. Noun clauses, adjective and adverb
clauses, gerunds and infinitives, and the conditional
are emphasized in this course. Through listening,
speaking, reading, and writing, students will use
English grammar to interpret the ideas of others and
express their own ideas accurately.
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