Academic Classes

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Most students come to SIU to either study in its undergraduate program or study in its graduate school program. For some students who cannot reach to the English minimum requirement of the TOEFL of SIU, the SIU has provided another manner that is through CESL classes and training. However, it would be a good news for the majority of students who want to complete their higher education dream and make them more competitive on the career market. That's our goal and why we are at here.

The regular courses, academic classes, have offered professional courses in many regions such as ECE, Business and Music Institutes and so on. CESL classes can only focus on a small range in which will probably include Environmental issues, Animals, or Space development, and these classes cannot teach students to get deep into the fields. As the small fields, I would rather CESL focuses more on writing and grammar, presentation and speech, and reading skill; because these three skills will be more important and useful when we start our academic classes.

I have felt that CESL classes are too focused on the core class, and sometimes there are too many home works assignments for students from every teacher. CESL should leave a little time for students to prepare for the TOEFL test. The reason is we need to take two tests at the end of the term in which either you pass the academic English minimum requirement, reach the next CESL level of the TOEFL requirement and pass classes, or see you in the same level in the next term. Besides, for this winter term, the final and the TOEFL test are too close. It will make students lack in test practice and fail it. Anyway, class I like most is my writing class because my writing class only teaches us writing skills. The other reason is that the writing skill is much useful.