Course description

This course

• focuses on integration of all four language skills;
• prepares students to pass the TOEFL test;
• provides ample opportunities to practice integrated
  • speaking,
  • reading,
  • writing and
  • listening tasks
  commonly encountered in academic settings.

Course Objectives

• Take effective notes from lectures and text
• Use wide range of words and expressions used in academic discourse
• Complete academic tasks that integrate all four skills under timed conditions
• Scan academic texts that identify main ideas and supporting details
• Infer the meaning of unknown technical words from context
• Draw conclusions based on what is implied in the text
• Write a well organized essay supporting an opinion under timed conditions.
• Recognize the rhetorical function and purpose of a passage as well as author's stance
• Synthesize and summarize information from various sources