Academic rigor and accelerated learning

University Success is the first-ever English language course that fuses intensive and rigorous skill development and expanded application, at the same time as meeting the unique academic, social, and linguistic needs of English language learners.

Rigorous academic preparation is carefully scaffolded with the systematic skill development that English language learners require to close their skills gap and become autonomous learners.

Challenging academic content ensures students are prepared quickly and appropriately to handle the challenges of academic work.

University Success supports programs that adopt the accelerated instruction model by allowing them to take advantage of authentic texts and exercises that enable students to develop vocabulary, reading, and listening strategies.

An authentic experience

Authentic essays and lectures expertly created by top professors from Stanford University, provide real-life learning experiences.

Real academic content provides students with the same challenges native speakers face in a university setting, preparing them to handle the quantity of reading and writing required in college-level courses as well as full-length lectures that have not been scaffolded for them.

Flexibility: three strands – three parts

The different strands are fully aligned across content areas allowing teachers to utilize material from different strands to support learning.

Five distinct STEAM content areas are included: The Human Experience, Money and Commerce, The Science of Nature, Arts and Letters, and Structural Science, all popular majors among English language learners.

The skills, like the content areas, are aligned. Teachers can delve deeply into a single skill area, or provide additional support from other skill areas for richer development across the four language skills.

Assessment

University Success provides a package of assessments that can be used as pre-course diagnostics, midcourse assessments, and final summative assessments. The flexible nature of these assessments allows teachers to choose which assessments will be most appropriate at various stages of the program. These assessments are embedded in the student book and are available online in MyEnglishLab.

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Strategies for academic success and soft skills

Strategies for academic success and soft skills, delivered via online videos, help increase students’ confidence and ability to cope with the challenges of academic study and college culture.

Study skills include how to talk to professors during office hours, time management techniques, understanding a syllabus, and many more.

Videos also include life skills topics such as living in an English-speaking setting, surviving in a culture different than one’s own, balancing studying and personal life, and many more.