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American Culture Track
American Culture track classes offer language instruction using the
context of the study of American culture, history, society, and community.
Language skills addressed include: listening, fluency development, oral
intelligibility, reading, grammar, writing, and vocabulary development.
Special activities and travel support classroom study.
American Culture Track classes include:
- English through Music (Listening/Speaking, Level IV, V)
This class uses the context of American popular music to focus on improving
students' listening comprehension and intelligibility skills, with particular
emphasis on rhythm and stress patterns. Students can also expect to significantly
increase their understanding of American culture and idiomatic expressions.
Students who are interested in the class should enjoy singing and listening
to a wide variety of music styles.
- English through the 1960’s (Listening/Speaking, Level VI)
This course focuses on developing students listening and speaking skills
in the context of issues and events that occurred in the United States in
the 1960s. Class work includes a wide variety of activities such as films,
recordings, guest speakers, class activities and projects. Oral intelligibility
instruction focuses on suprasegmentals (intonation, stress, rhythm, linking,
volume, gestures) and fluency development.
- English through the News (Listening/Speaking, Level IV, V)
This course uses radio and television news broadcasts to develop students'
listening comprehension of rapid native speech and complex discourse. Students
will work on their spoken English skills through class discussion of current
events. Oral intelligibility instruction focuses on pronunciation, suprasegmentals,
and fluency.
- English Through Stories (Listening/Speaking, Level V)
This class seeks to improve listening comprehension through guided listening
to stories told by North American storytellers. At the same time, students
will develop their speaking skills as they practice pronunciation, oral grammar
and improve their fluency as they discuss stories that they hear and tell
stories of their own. The stories which form the content of the class are
based on both universal and American cultural themes.
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