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Dec 15, 2025
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EAP 0100 - Intensive Grammar Application3 lecture hours 0 lab hours 3 credits
Course Description
This course builds on foundational grammar skills to improve common errors in academic writing and speaking. It includes the present, the past, the perfect, the future, modals and modal-like expressions, nouns and pronouns, gerunds and infinitives, noun clauses, indirect speech, the passive, relative clauses, conditionals, and connecting ideas. Emphasis is given to avoiding and identifying most common grammar usage mistakes with explicit application of target structures in writing. Students use the targeted grammar to read, write, speak about, and listen to current events. At the end of this course, students should be better prepared to accurately use English grammatical structures to participate academic speaking and writing tasks at a university level. (prereq: none)
Course Learning Outcomes
Upon successful completion of this course, the student will be able to:
- Analyze and apply English grammar rules to in and out-of-class activities
- Apply knowledge of grammar to written and oral tasks
- Recognize, categorize, and correct grammatical errors in students’ own writing and the writing of others
- Recognize and analyze grammatical structures used in current event aural and written reports
- Lead and participate in discussions using appropriate and targeted grammatical structures
- Demonstrate knowledge of grammatical concepts on in-class assessments
Prerequisites by Topic
Course Topics
- Grammatical structures based on class need, as identified in initial assessment, such as:
- Verb tenses: the present, past, perfect, and future
- Modals and modal-like expressions
- Nouns, pronouns, and articles
- Gerunds and infinitives
- Noun and relative clauses
- Indirect speech
- Passive voice
- Conditional statements
- Cohesive devices and sentence structure
- Identifying and analyzing grammatical structures in aural and written texts
- Recognizing and correcting grammatical errors in speaking and writing
- Applying grammatical structures to spoken and written tasks
Coordinator
Katherine Toske
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