Classroom Pictures

Advanced writing class	Communication for professional and academic success
Audit class about Native Americans	Individualized Instruction

Three-week ESL course: April 18-May 5

Track1

*Individualized Instruction (1 hour/day)

Track2

*Individualized Instruction (1 hour/day)

First five-week ESL session: May 6 - June 9

Track1
Option A:

Option B: 3 hours of the above classes + 1 hour of Individualized Instruction

Track2
Option A:

Option B: 2 hours of the above classes + 1 hour of Individualized Instruction

Second five-week ESL session: June 13-24 (first 2 weeks)

Track1
Option A:

Option B: 3 hours of the above classes + 1 hour of Individualized Instruction

Track2
Option A: 1-4 hours of the above classes

Option B: 1 hour of Individualized Instruction
Option C: Free time for independent work (Take no classes)

June 27-July 15 (last 3 weeks)

Track1
Option A:

Option B: 2-3 hours of the above classes + 1 hour of Individualized Instruction

Track2
Option A: 1-4 hours of the above classes

Option B: 1 hour of Individualized Instruction
Option C: Free time for independent work (Take no classes)

High-Intermediate Writing
Teacher: Sue Zimmerman
Course objectives:

• Improve individual writing skills for writing at the college level
• Write well-developed paragraphs and basic essays
• Write an effective essay introduction, including thesis statement
• Write an effective conclusion for an essay
• Use various types of rhetorical styles such as classification, compare/contrast, and cause/effect
• Use transition appropriately within paragraphs and between paragraphs
• Improve written grammar

Advanced Speaking
Teacher: Karen Savage
This class is aimed at improving speaking ability and speaking English positively. The teacher encouraged students to speak in the class and gave them opportunities to express their opinions. We practiced Impromptu speech and argumentative debate related to different topics.

Advanced Writing
Teacher: Hattie Baker and Meghan Mazour
This class focuses on writing well-developed paragraphs, writing effective argumentative essays, and improving written grammar. During classes students often were given a topic and wrote about for a limited time. Students kept journals or sometimes e-mail journals as everyday homework.

Everyday English and Culture
Teacher: Meghan Mazour
This class is just for LEAPers and started in 2005. We learn about American values, etiquette, history, and government. We also learned and practiced American idioms. This class is designed to help us adjust to life in the United States more easily and to help us understand the context of current issues in the United States.

Individualized Instruction
This class is just for LEAPers and started in 2005. Each LEAPer has one tutor and talks about various topics and issues. What they talk about depends on each tutor. Some people talked about homework and some talked about a newspaper articles which their tutor prepared.

Advanced Speaking & Communication
Teacher: Karen Savage
Course objectives:

• Successfully arguing and supporting one’s view.
• Orally summarizing and paraphrasing both written and spoken information clearly.
• Developing questioning skills and strategies, using grammatically correct and natural questions.
• Using transition words and signals appropriately in speech.
• Using natural and appropriate English language and grammar forms in a fluent manner.
• Giving a formal presentation of approximately10 minutes.
• Using analogy, description, and definition to add strength to one’s speaking.
• Increasing vocabulary and awareness of English grammar.
• Developing appropriate language styles for different social situations.
• Learning and recognizing non-standard and reduced speech forms common in everyday spoken English.
• Using native-like intonation, stress, and rhythm when speaking in class presentation project.

Advanced Academic Writing and Research Skills
Teacher: Meghan Mazour

• Unit One: Explaing Concepts in Academic Essays
  In this section students learned to explain difficult concepts for academic papers. After reading and reviewing concepts, students wrote an essay which applied these concepts.
• Unit 2: Position Papers
  In this sextion each student chose an issue they felt strongly about and wrote and argumentative essay that showed and support their position
• Unit 3: The Research Process and Writing a Research Paper
  With a strong background in writing, students were now ready for the research phase. We learned to seacrh periodicals and books in the library's on-line catalouge and each student wrote a final research paper with fully documented sources.
• Unit 4: Journalism
  This unit provided a foundation in basic journalistic principals and commenced with each student producing a professional newspaper article- each with the theme of the international community in Bozeman.

This class started in 2005. We wrote essays and research papers and read news articles. LEAPers took this class with highly skilled students from various countries like India, Nepal, Tunisia, and Sri Lanka.

Communication for Professional & Academic Success
Teacher: Dr. Pat Hansen
This class started in 2005. The increased focus on internationalism in academics and business has caused an increase in the awareness of the importance of interactive skills. This course focuses on the students as a member of the academic community, student as facilitator, and student as presenter. The course will prepare the student for effective academic and professional involvement. We gave a couple of presentations about our country, our culture, our hobby, some division in MSU and so on. In this class there were also some great skilled students who came from various countries, so it was good opportunity to know cultural differences in academic and work field and learn how to get along with other countries’ people.

Audit Preparation and Audit Class
Instructor: Hattie Baker
This class focuses on developing and refining the study skills necessary for success at the university. At Audit preparation class, students are given the opportunity to discuss, process and review the information from college lectures. We learned how to take high quality notes and comprehend academic lectures by watching videos of college lectures, To catch up with native speed, we tried to developing reading speed. And at Audit class, students attended a course of lectures at MSU. In 2005, we attended American Indian or geography classs.

Former Participant’s Comment
Classes at ACE were extremely impressive for me. They were ,uch more active than the classes in Japanese school. I wrote many essays, did presentations, a debate, and a drama. I took classes for 2 months, and I believe they were very effective to start a good life in the U.S. (7th NAGATAKE, Yoshinobu)