Continuing Education

The advanced payment is required new student and mailing fees for F-1 visa international students who are new to the ESL Institute: Intensive English language program. If the mailing fee is not used, it will be applied to tuition. The new student fee is not refundable. Students are also charged tuition for each individual course. Additionally, there may be other fees, such as late registration fees, APSU Program Service fees, technology access fees, or health services deposit that may be required at a later date. Students will be informed if any of these fees are required of them during the application and registration process. Please contact the ESL Institute for further information and/or to sign up for a registration session. Austin Peay State University English as a Second Language Institute McReynolds Building Room 211 PO Box 4478 Clarksville, TN 37044 P: 931-221-6270 esl@apsu.edu www.apsu.edu/esl *fees subject to change

The advanced payment is required new student and mailing fees for F-1 visa international students who are new to the ESL Institute: Intensive English language program and who are also applying for APSU undergraduate admission. If the mailing fee is not used, it will be applied to tuition. The new student fees are not refundable. Students are also charged tuition for each individual course. Additionally, there may be other fees, such as late registration fees, APSU Program Service fees, technology access fees, or health services deposit that may be required at a later date. Students will be informed if any of these fees are required of them during the application and registration process. Please contact the ESL Institute for further information and/or to sign up for a registration session. Austin Peay State University English as a Second Language Institute McReynolds Building Room 211 PO Box 4478 Clarksville, TN 37044 P: 931-221-6270 esl@apsu.edu www.apsu.edu/esl *fees subject to change

This course will help students improve their speaking, listening and pronunciation skills in English through the use of small group activities, role playing, and various other assignments to give students authentic listening and speaking practice on various topics. Students will practice skills and strategies needed for college study such as academic lecture comprehension, note-taking skills and participation in class discussions and debates, in addition to real life communication situations. There will be oral presentations in front of the class and in small groups to build confidence.

This course will help students improve their speaking, listening and pronunciation skills in English through the use of small group activities, role playing, and various other assignments to give students authentic listening and speaking practice on various topics. Students will practice skills and strategies needed for college study such as academic lecture comprehension, note-taking skills and participation in class discussions and debates, in addition to real life communication situations. There will be oral presentations in front of the class and in small groups to build confidence.

This course provides students with practice in sentence completion and error correction items, both of which represent common structures found in conversation, professional and academic English settings. Students will learn to recognize and appropriately employ the various levels of English usage from the eight parts of speech to simple, compound and complex sentences with a focus on production through speaking and writing. Consequently, mastering the subject material in this course allows students to use English more fluently when communicating with other English speakers, when using English at a job, in everyday life and when using English in a university environment.

This course provides students with practice in sentence completion and error correction items, both of which represent common structures found in conversation, professional and academic English settings. Students will learn to recognize and appropriately employ the various levels of English usage from the eight parts of speech to simple, compound and complex sentences with a focus on production through speaking and writing. Consequently, mastering the subject material in this course allows students to use English more fluently when communicating with other English speakers, when using English at a job, in everyday life and when using English in a university environment.

This course will help improve students' basic writing skills through use of the writing process and different types of writing styles from paragraph writing to essay writing. Students learn to write effective sentences in the organization and writing of clear, focused simple paragraphs as well as short essays or research papers (depending on level). Students will become familiar with the writing process to develop fluency, clarity, organization, expression, and grammatical accuracy with a focus on building their editing skills.

This course will help improve students' basic writing skills through use of the writing process and different types of writing styles from paragraph writing to essay writing. Students learn to write effective sentences in the organization and writing of clear, focused simple paragraphs as well as short essays or research papers (depending on level). Students will become familiar with the writing process to develop fluency, clarity, organization, expression, and grammatical accuracy with a focus on building their editing skills.

This combined skills course is designed to improve vocabulary and build reading skills. High-frequency vocabulary is learned in context along with word collocations, word families, prefixes and suffixes. Techniques and strategies needed to understand new vocabulary in a variety of contexts from simple passages up to academic texts will be practiced. Reading skills are practiced in reading passages that help expand reading comprehension and build reading strategies such as summarizing, skimming, scanning, inferring and predicting. Through practicing these reading skills, students gain experience understanding simple reading passages, building up to academic level writing and passages.

This combined skills course is designed to improve vocabulary and build reading skills. High-frequency vocabulary is learned in context along with word collocations, word families, prefixes and suffixes. Techniques and strategies needed to understand new vocabulary in a variety of contexts from simple passages up to academic texts will be practiced. Reading skills are practiced in reading passages that help expand reading comprehension and build reading strategies such as summarizing, skimming, scanning, inferring and predicting. Through practicing these reading skills, students gain experience understanding simple reading passages, building up to academic level writing and passages.