Three/Twenty-Two Hours per Week - Eight Week Sessions
Mastery English courses aim to equip students with communication skills comparable to those of first-year college or university native speakers. Depending on the particular course, students will gain skills in research, reading, and writing, give and participate in collegiate-level presentations, and interact with invited guest speakers.
While guiding students according to their needs and specific interests, instructors employ creative strategies and approaches that will challenge students to maximize their potential.
In addition to three hours each week with an instructor, F-1 students are required to take an additional 19 hours of instructor-guided self-study/lab work (on campus).
TUITION (Include Books)
$852
Times: Mornings or Late Afternoon/Evenings
Prerequisite
Successful completion of all seven levels of AEI's Intensive English Course
OR: score higher than Level Seven on AEI's placement test
OR: successfully passed professional exams in English
This course aims to equip learners with communication skills needed for collegiate success along with native-English speakers. Learners will gain research and writing skills, give and participate in collegiate-level presentations relevant to their specific field of interest or study, and interact with invited guest speakers. Mastery students will learn strategies and approaches that will challenge them to maximize their potential.
The Information Age places a demand on readers and writers to proficiently extract and process relevant information from academic, professional, and other literary sources for advancement in the professional as well as personal spheres.
This Speed Reading and Summary Writing Course is designed to move mastery-level students to collegiate-level reading comprehension and its counterpart, summary writing. We will empower you through progressively challenging timed readings, faster reading techniques, timed written summaries of the readings, and discussions.
Experiencing weekly progress in critical communication areas is the hallmark of this course!
Advanced learners have a receptive knowledge of many vocabularies but have a need to develop a productive knowledge. This course aims to help mastery students develop productive vocabularies needed for academic writing or spoken reports. Productive competence will be achieved through cause-effect, general description, description of processes, and comparison/contrast course work. Coupled with vocabulary development, this course emphasizes acquiring elements of pronunciation that most affect intelligibility.
The Pre-MBA course is a mastery course structured to prepare learners for university business courses. Through selected readings from current periodicals such as Business Week, students develop reading strategies to enhance comprehension and build a broad business vocabulary. In addition, learners will gain practical skills needed in the business world such as writing summaries, reports, letters, and memos; giving oral presentations; and analyzing realistic case studies. Students will have the option of visiting local companies and inviting guest speakers.
An outstanding feature of this course is that it examines the difference between formal versus informal and spoken versus written varieties of the language. Coupled with practical idioms useful in speech and writing, this course will facilitate students developing confidence needed to communicate on a multi-faceted level. Students that have mastered structure will gain near-native communicative proficiency as they learn the uses of grammar coupled with opportunities to apply idioms in authentic situations.
Twenty-first century leaders are able to communicate about topics of global, current importance. This course is designed to enhance your leadership communication skills as you lead discussions, perform cooperative learning activities, and express opinions needed to succeed in school as well as in the work place. Using integrated learning strategies, you will be challenged not only to discuss issues, but also to make meaningful decisions. By researching and writing about relevant topics and issues, you will develop a solid foundation to think critically and respond appropriately in given situations. This course also features coupling global topics with contemporary textbook lessons that will require you to conduct internet or other media research in preparation for presenting the latest findings about high-interest news, articles or issues.
