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Our Language Curriculum

International students have a special need, namely communicating in English. SB Education offers an intensive on a group based language program to help improve the students’ English proficiency. The program, designed specifically for international students, covers the following six areas:

Conversation and Listening

Pronunciation- Consonants and Vowels

Pronunciation- Intonation,Stress,and rhythm

Idioms

Grammar and Writing

Reading and Vocabulary

SB Education offers an intensive language program to help improve the students’ English proficiency. The program, designed specifically for international students, stresses conversation, listening, pronunciation, idioms, grammar, reading, writing, and vocabulary. Students are grouped into four levels: beginner, low intermediate, high intermediate, and advanced.

Conversation and Listening
Designed for students who wish to improve conversational fluency and listening comprehension, this class focuses on communicating ideas in English. Audio, video, and reading materials are used for conversation topics and for developing listening skills.
Pronunciation – Consonants and Vowels

Students learn the basic techniques needed to produce correct sounds. Students are trained to use the organs of speech to form consonant and vowel sounds. Individual and common pronunciation problems are addressed through teacher modeling and correction as well as peer feedback.

Pronunciation – Intonation, Stress, and Rhythm

In this course, students practice the ‘music’ of English. Students analyze how intonation, or the pitch of their voice, carries meaning. Students also learn the importance of word and sentence stress to being understood. Studying the rhythm of English helps students speak more clearly and fluently.

Idioms

The course is designed for students who wish to increase their English fluency through the mastery of idioms. Students will be given the opportunity to practice in contextualized settings, using news reports, radio programs, songs, role play exercises, presentations, magazines, and advertisements.

Grammar and Writing

Students explore grammar in the context of their own writing and through controlled exercises from the textbook. Emphasis is placed on error analysis to help students master their mistakes and improve their writing through the process of editing and revising.