Program Requirements

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. 

Program Levels

• Level 1
  • Recognize basic vocabulary
  • Understand spoken messages delivered slowly
  • Spell letters of the alphabet
  • Read simple words and short sentences
• Level 2
  • Pronounce basic vocabulary
  • Communicate ideas in simple sentences
  • Fill out forms
  • Explain something that happened in the past
  • Explain something that is happening now
• Level 3
  • 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
• Level 4
  • 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
• Level 5
  • 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
• Level 6
  • 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
• Level 7
  • Be fluent, logical and exact in oral responses
  • Understand and use puns
  • Write a research proposal
  • Critique academic research