INTENSIVE ENGLISH PROGRAM ONLINE

e-PROGRAM is the first fully integrated, comprehensive and intensive tutorial that incorporates video, audio and immediate one-on-one help from instructors at the click of a mouse.

The program utilizes video clips from movies such as "Groundhog Day" to "The Fugitive" to show students common uses of the English language. Other lessons are available for users to listen to and attempt to duplicate.

The reading and writing aspects of English are also emphasized through quizzes on the film clips, an online chat room, a discussion board where students can post messages and writing assignments on different topics.

Now a student in Bangkok or Nigeria or Paris can take our program and be a TCU student without obtaining a visa, and it's highly interactive.

Your classroom is a one-teacher-to-three-student (ratio). And TCU students can get involved by being an e-mail pal with the IEP students to help with surveys and assignments.

The beauty of the Internet course is that it sidesteps requirements imposed by the Immigration and Naturalization Service, avoids hassles in obtaining visas, is convenient because instruction is online 24 hours a day, and is relatively inexpensive.

The use of the e-Program has resulted in improved scores on the Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL), an exam that all international students need to pass to enter into any U.S. university.

The hi-tech capabilities of the e-Program make it exciting and easy to use. It is also available to IEP students enrolled to the regular program.

Reiko Hashimoto, a freshman computer science major from Japan, participated in the e-Program and said most of the success behind it comes from the instructors' desire to help the students and the program grow.

"It's a really nice program and everyday it's improving because the teachers are always trying to make it better," Hashimoto said.

The program is also set up so the instructors can monitor the students' progress, review their work and even offer suggestions, both in print and on recorded audio clips. This contact gives the e-Program a more personal touch.

Please send e-mail to: iep@tcu.edu if you would like more information.

Intensive English Program
at Texas Christian University

Telephone: +1 (817) 257-7485
Fax: +1 (817) 257-7761

Web site: http://www.eprogram.tcu.edu