Class Level Assessment
During orientation, your language proficiency in listening, speaking, reading, and writing will be assessed. Your class level will be determined based on your test scores.
Beginning Levels:
- Have the necessary language skills to perform daily activities such as greeting others, talking about yourself, and making simple requests
- Have the language skills to engage in simple conversations with native speakers
- Listen to basic level conversations or discourse and answer factual questions
- Read simplified and adapted ESL materials, comprehend main ideas, and answer basic questions
- Use basic sentence structure correctly
- Write single paragraphs based on models
Intermediate Levels:
- Are able to interact successfully in a variety of social situations and respond appropriately
- Are able to give short informational presentations that demonstrate satisfactory comprehension of varied listening materials
- Read clearly organized texts, then identify the main ideas, supporting details, and method of development
- Write complex essays using process writing strategies and development
- Are able to take notes and summarize short academic lectures and extended conversations
Advanced Levels:
- Utilize oral communication skills with enough accuracy and fluency to participate in a range of practical, social, and academic situations
- Use vocabulary effectively, particularly for expressing subtleties of meaning
- Process ideas and information from complex academic lectures (from a variety of media) and integrate the information into discussions and debates
- Explain and synthesize information from lectures in preparation for essay exams
- Write a well organized research paper with proper documentation, suitable for mainstream academic coursework
- Read a wide range of fictional and non-fictional texts with nearly complete comprehension and demonstrate effective use of analytical skills