Professional English Certificate

Available as a full certificate for $1,500 or individual classes for $600

•  This advanced certificate is designed for professionals who are seeking to perfect and polish the English Language skills they need for a workplace environment.
•  Students who take this program are normally working professionals looking to fine-tune their skills for the workplace.
•  Classes will be broken down into 8-week classes: Pronunciation, Grammar, Writing

Pronunciation: (20 hour $600)  Register for this Course

Course Objectives: Students will learn how

• To gain confidence with listening to and speaking American English in formal and informal situations
• To become more familiar with using vivid, descriptive language while speaking English
• To learn to deliver prepared formal presentations on a variety of topics in English
• To pronounce American English words correctly
• Interjections and intonation
• Syllables with unstressed vowels (represented by the schwa)
• Words linked by final /s/ and /z/ sounds
• Syllables stress
• Words stress in compound nouns
• Stress and pauses indicating thought groups
• Content words and sentence stress
• Function words and sentence stress
• Vowel length with voiced and voiceless consonants

Each student will participate in an individual conference with the instructor so he/she may understand your specific pronunciation needs.
Reading is very important to the pronunciation class – you must do it! Reading will incrementally become harder as the class goes on. You will be evaluated on your speaking and pronunciation skills.

Grammar (20 hour $600): Register for this Course Now

Course Objectives:

• to learn authentic American English grammar
• to distinguish the grammar typical in conversation vs grammar typical in writing
• to work independently to refine their respective grammar skills

Course Coverage:

• verb tenses
• modals
• multi-word verbs
• prepositions
• active voice vs passive voice
• gerunds and infinitives
• adjectives and adverbs
• subject-verb-agreement
• students’ suggestions are welcome

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Writing (20 hour $600): Register for this Course Now

Course Objectives: Students will learn how

• To gain confidence in writing in American English using formal and informal structures

• To apply nuts-and-bolts strategies for improving writing
• To combine sentences through coordination and subordination
• To identify adequately developed paragraphs
• To provide transitions in writing
• To identify, understand, and correct errors in writing
• To edit essays

Course Coverage:

• Understanding Basic Sentence Types
• Fragments/Run-ons/Fused Sentences/Comma Splices
• Clauses
• Conjunctions
• Writing Topic Sentences, Paragraphs, and Essays
• Using Punctuation Marks and Punctuation Patterns Effectively
• Revising Sentences: parallelism, consistent point of view, specific words, active verbs, concise words
• Organizing Ideas
• Evaluating Essays for Unity
• Evaluating Essays for Support
• Evaluating Essays for Coherence
• Evaluating Essays for Unity, Support, Coherence, and Sentence Skills - All in ONE

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