Language Program - General English Intensive Program - Fall Intake Purdue University Northwest

The full-time, intensive English Language Program is a CEA-accredited intensive academic English program that helps international students develop English-language proficiency to the level needed to succeed at Purdue University Northwest or other universities in the United States or Canada.

Reading courses progressively develop skills and strategies for effective academic reading. Students will read both inside and outside the classroom to improve and refine their skills, practicing a number of strategies for reading faster, understanding and mastering vocabulary in context and using strategic reading skills. Discussion and small group work will follow reading selections to help students develop critical reading and thinking skills.

Writing courses focus on skills and strategies for effective academic writing. Throughout all levels, students will engage in discussion and small-group work to develop and improve composition skills, including organization, rhetoric, sentence structure, grammar and mechanics.

In the beginning level, students will focus on developing the ability to write effectively in English through extensive practice in prewriting, drafting, revising and editing. Then students will develop composition skills with an emphasis on idea clarity. Finally, students will practice various rhetorical aspects of writing while focusing on improving the cohesion, unity, and clarity of ideas.

Speaking/listening courses focus on strategies for developing listening and conversation skills to help students succeed in social and academic settings. For the listening component, students, their classmates and the instructor will provide the class with a wide variety of listening excerpts. Afterward, discussions and small-group tasks will first build a foundation for their listening abilities then focus on specific listening strategies, such as listening for main ideas and details.

For the speaking component, students will progressively develop their ability to speak in a variety of academic contexts, focusing on pronunciation skills, grammatical accuracy while speaking, academic discussion skills, presentation skills, interviewing skills and critical thinking skills.

Purdue University Northwest (PNW) is committed to providing a diverse and inclusive learning environment for its campus community that values students and employees from multiple backgrounds who contribute to a vibrant metropolitan university.

Purdue University Northwest faculty and staff have taken active steps to create a sense of belonging through student recruitment, on-campus offices and their resources, and organizations and events through Student Life.

Purdue University Northwest recent Hispanic Heritage Month featured more than 20 events across September and October that celebrated the Latinx diaspora, including the premier event of PNW’s second annual Hispanic Heritage Festival.

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