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Choose from one of four tracks of study
There are many different reasons for wanting to improve your English skills, and we want to help you to achieve your goals – that means, your classes can be specific to the track (i.e., area), of English that you wish to focus on.
General English
General English courses, offered at all levels of the Intensive English Program, seek to improve students’ English skills in a great variety of discourse settings. Students develop communicative competence for social and work-related environments through interactive activities simulating real-life situations.
Language skills addressed include: listening, fluency development, oral intelligibility, reading, grammar, writing, and vocabulary development.
English for Academic Purposes
English for Academic Purposes (EAP) courses provide language instruction for academic study in American universities.
Language skills addressed include: listening comprehension, fluency development, oral intelligibility, reading, grammar, writing, and vocabulary development.
Academic study skills addressed include: test taking and note taking skills, academic vocabulary usage, critical reading and writing, comprehending academic lectures, research and library skills, formal composition forms and development, including research papers.
Students in the Academic Track may apply for conditional admission to the University of Delaware and to any of our many partner universities.
English for Academic Purposes courses are available to students in several programs, including the Intensive English Program (IEP), the Graduate Conditional Admissions Program (Graduate CAP), and the Accelerated University English Program (AUEP).
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Undergraduate students
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Graduate students
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Business English
Business English courses provide language instruction and training in business communication, including business correspondence, negotiations, formal presentations, informal networking, business vocabulary, report and proposal writing, vocabulary for professional purposes, and reading for professional purposes.
Language skills addressed include: listening, fluency development, oral intelligibility, reading, grammar, writing, and vocabulary development.
Students in the Business English track may also apply for conditional admission to the University of Delaware and to any of our many partner universities.
English Through American Culture
American Culture track courses offer language instruction using the context of the study of American culture, history, society, and community. Students in this track of study can take English about music, stories, American history, 1960s history, drama, English as an international language, news, film, and gaming.
Language skills addressed include: listening, fluency development, oral intelligibility, reading, grammar, writing, and vocabulary development. Special activities and travel support classroom study.