Intensive English Courses

Through the Program in Intensive English, you will take classes that prepare you to begin academic courses at Northern Arizona University. Enjoy small class sizes and instruction from accomplished teachers.

Available courses

Grammar and Writing (4 hours per week)

This course develops students’ skills in academic grammar, thus preparing learners for regular classes at the undergraduate level. Students will practice using and producing frequent and productive grammatical structures and applying these grammatical structures to written academic tasks.

Listening, Notetaking, and Speaking (4 hours per week)

Listening, Notetaking, and Speaking courses teach advanced academic listening, academic notetaking, and academic speaking language skills through academic content. This course targets and enhances skills and content knowledge considered necessary for university readiness.

Reading and Vocabulary (4 hours per week)

This course is designed to prepare students for mainstream academic reading. The course will focus on extensive reading, fluency building, practice with timed reading, vocabulary, reading comprehension, and reading strategies.

ENG 105 Lab (2 hours per week)

This course provides language support and scaffolding to enable students to succeed in NAU composition ENG 105 course.

SOC 215 English Lab (2 hours per week)

This course provides language support and scaffolding to enable students to succeed in NAU’s ethnic diversity elective SOC 215 course.