Director: Christine Mekkaoui
Telephone: 620-235-4644
Office: 120-C Whitesitt Hall
e-mail: cmekkaou@pittstate.edu
The mission of the Intensive English Program is to help international students to achieve their academic and professional goals through the development of their English language skills.
The IEP is a full-time program featuring four eight-week sessions during the academic year and one eight-week session during the summer. Classes are offered at six levels, from beginning to advanced. Students spend approximately 20 hours per week in class, taking courses in grammar, reading, listening/speaking, writing, and academic preparation. The program is flexible, and every effort is made to meet individual student needs.
The successful completion of the highest level of the Intensive English Program, IEP 061 and IEP 062, is the equivalent of a 79 iBT, 213 cBT or 550 pBT TOEFL score. It can be substituted for the TOEFL requirement for admission purposes to Pittsburg State University for all undergraduate degrees and most graduate programs.
All members of the Intensive English Program faculty hold at least a master's degree in teaching English as a foreign language. The instructors are full-time faculty with teaching experience both in the United States and overseas. Most faculty members have successfully mastered a foreign language, making them aware of the language learning process that their students face.
IEP 011. Elementary Structure. 0 hours. The study of structures required for basic communication needs. Structures include simple tenses, simple sentence structure, and elementary parts of speech. Offered on Pass-No Credit basis only.
IEP 012. Elementary Composition. 0 hours. Writing using basic sentence structure. Simple mechanics of writing, including word order, capitalization, and punctuation. Offered on Pass-No Credit basis only.
IEP 013. Elementary Reading. 0 hours. Students read simple passages which contain basic structures and easy vocabulary. They begin to learn skills needed to understand the passages. Offered on Pass-No Credit basis only.
IEP 014. Elementary Listening/Speaking. 0 hours. Survival communication skills. Students learn reduced forms common in informal speech. Students learn the number system, time, wh-questions and common answers, key verbs, common nouns and pronouns, slow and fast speech. Offered on Pass-No Credit basis only.
IEP 021. Pre-Intermediate Structure. 0 hours. Students review simple tenses and study count and noncount nouns, singular and plural, adjectives, question formation and comparative structures. Offered on Pass-No Credit basis only.
IEP 022. Pre-Intermediate Composition. 0 hours. Students learn to write simple paragraphs on familiar topics. The focus is on correct sentence structure. Offered on Pass-No Credit basis only.
IEP 023. Pre-Intermediate Reading. 0 hours. Students study relatively simple reading passages and add to their working vocabulary and reading skills. Offered on Pass-No Credit basis only.
IEP 024. Pre-Intermediate Listening/Speaking. 0 hours. Students develop communicative skills which reinforce their knowledge of structure and vocabulary. Extensive practice in listening/speaking is provided. Offered on Pass-No Credit basis only.
IEP 031. Intermediate I Structure. 0 hours. A continuation of knowledge of basic structures. Students study past and future tenses, modal auxiliaries and subject-verb agreement. Offered on Pass-No Credit basis only.
IEP 032. Intermediate I Composition. 0 hours. Students learn to write well-developed paragraphs which employ specific rhetorical patterns. Offered on Pass-No Credit basis only.
IEP 033. Intermediate I Reading. 0 hours. Students learn to understand moderately difficult passages by improving their reading skills, adding to their vocabulary, and increasing their reading speed. Offered on Pass-No Credit basis only.
IEP 034. Intermediate I Listening/Speaking. 0 hours. Students learn specific listening skills. These skills include predicting, making inferences, listening for general comprehension and listening for detail. Conversation skills are also stressed. Offered on Pass-No Credit basis only.
IEP 041. Intermediate II Structure. 0 hours. Students consolidate their previous knowledge of verb tenses. They also study active versus passive voice and gerunds and infinitives. Students begin studying complex sentence structure, including phrases versus clauses and adverb clauses. Offered on Pass-No Credit basis only.
IEP 042. Intermediate II Composition. 0 hours. Students review paragraphs and begin writing multi-paragraph essays using specific rhetorical forms. Offered on Pass-No Credit basis only.
IEP 043. Intermediate II Reading. 0 hours. Students learn to understand reading passages which contain moderately difficult vocabulary and complex sentence structure. They continue to apply the reading skills they are studying, increase their reading speed, and add to their working vocabulary. Offered on Pass-No Credit basis only.
IEP 044. Intermediate II Listening/Speaking. 0 hours. Further development of the listening skills introduced in the previous level: predicting, listening for main ideas and details, and making inferences. Students also examine language use and engage in discussions and debates. Students listen to authentic radio broadcasts and academic mini-lectures. Offered on Pass-No Credit basis only.
IEP 051. Advanced I Structure. 0 hours. Emphasis is on complex grammatical structures. Students start with a review of clauses/phrases, followed by detailed study of noun clauses, adjective clauses, conditional sentences of all types, parallel structure, and past/passive gerunds and infinitives. Offered on Pass-No Credit basis only.
IEP 052. Advanced I Composition. 0 hours. Students write multi-paragraph essays using a variety of rhetorical patterns. They also write documented essays incorporating paraphrases, summaries, and quotations. Offered on Pass-No Credit basis only.
IEP 053. Advanced I Reading. 0 hours. Students learn to understand college freshman level reading passages with unrestricted vocabulary. They continue to apply reading skills, increase their reading speed and add to their working vocabulary. Offered on Pass-No Credit Basis only.
IEP 054. Advanced I Listening/Speaking. 0 hours. Students continue to add to their listening and speaking skills. They concentrate on listening and notetaking strategies. They listen to actual university level lectures on a variety of subjects. Offered on Pass-No Credit basis only.
IEP 061. Academic Preparation Text/Lecture. 0 hours. Students practice listening to and comprehending academic lectures, reading an academic textbook, making short oral presentations and participating in discussions. Course is closely modeled on an actual academic course. Offered on Pass-No Credit basis only.
IEP 062. Academic Preparation Writing. 0 hours. Prepares students for university level writing. Students learn to conduct extensive research, evaluate sources, and choose types of evidence. Students write a documented essay as a group project and a 10-page documented research paper individually. Offered on Pass-No Credit basis only.
IEP 063. Directed Study by Appointment. 0 hours. TOEFL Preparation Class/Advanced Grammar (level 5)/APC Text Lecture (review). Offered only to Academic Preparation Course students who graduated during the first 8-week session of the fall or spring semester. Offered on Pass-No Credit basis only.
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